Gemsbok National Park Botswana

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Gemsbok National Park is located at the bordering regions of the countries of Botswana and Namibia. The total stretch of land encapsulated by the Gemsbok National Park is more than then thousand square kilometers. The Gemsbok National Park of Botswana was established in the year 1931 to protect the migratory game in the region of Gemsbok. The Park however got combined with the neighboring Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and was converted to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the year 1990. The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is the first one of its kind in South Africa as well as in the whole world.

The newly formed Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park covers an area of 36,000 square kilometers, which includes the entire region of the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana. The chief features of the Gemsbok National Park at Botswana include the Red sand dunes and the dry riverbeds of the Auob and Nossob. The sparse vegetation in the area provides optimum conditions for the survival of antelopes and other predators. Some of the rarest varieties of wildlife at the Park include the ground squirrel, suricate or meerkat, blue wildebeest, eland, springbok, red hartebeest, honey badger, pangolin, bat-eared fox, cheetah, leopard, brown and spotted hyena and the black-mane lion.

There are six varieties of camping sites available at the Gemsbok National Park with different sizes and cost, for accommodation purposes.