McCarthys Rest | McCarthy’s Rest lies snug up against the border with Botswana, just outside the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

McCarthys Rest, Northern Cape

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McCarthys Rest

MCCARTHYS REST
Meerkat seen in Kgalagadi Transfrontier ParkMcCarthys Rest, Northern Cape: McCarthy’s Rest lies snug up against the border with Botswana, just outside the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park - its name something of a misnomer, for, whilst it is a border post, there is no town here called McCarthy’s Rest. Instead there is a group of game farms in the most isolated corner of the Northern Cape.

But perhaps it is this very isolation in the northern perimeter of the Kalahari Desert that makes McCarthy’s Rest the incredible experience it is, and offers access to some incredible game parks and scenery bar none. The Kalahari, in which McCarthy’s Rest is situated, is a large semi-arid expanse of desert that covers much of Botswana as well as parts of South Africa and Namibia.

It is an ever-changing wilderness that once discovered by travellers, is re-visited time and time again. It offers incredible, and almost incomprehensible, stretches of savannah that present excellent grazing opportunities for game after rain; there are blinding saltpans under baobab trees, and only one permanent river, the Okavango, which draws an incredibly rich assortment of wildlife to its delta.

It is interesting that the word ‘Kalahari’ is derived from the Tswana ‘Kgalagadi’, which in turn is the name given to the trans-border conservation area, one of Africa’s most impressive parks. Just across the border from McCarthy’s Rest, and one of the main reasons for passing through this part of the world, is a huge preserve of wildlife and conservation area. Meaning ‘land of thirst’, the park straddles the border between Botswana and South Africa and merges the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park with the Gemsbok National Park - some 38000 square kilometres rich in wildlife.
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Kalahari National Park / Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park: The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park stretching into Botswana comprises two million-hectares of sparsely vegetated, red sand dunes and dry riverbeds. Honey Badger, Pangolin and Bat-eared Fox are some of the park specials, but the predators ... more » Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

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McCarthys Rest | McCarthy’s Rest lies snug up against the border with Botswana, just outside the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

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