Nxai Pan, Botswana - lookout hide warning
Our research had recommended we visit two look-out hides in the park. One is allegedly adjoining the South Camp. The other is up on the sand ridge south of the South Camp where a panoramic view of the Park can be obtained. I’d read somewhere about a family who raved about the lookout and what an amazing time they’d had there. Our previous experience of a hide had been at the Dombo Hippo Pool in Moremi which was a fantastic place in great condition, so we had no reason to think this would be any less fantastic. However our first clue should have been when we asked the scouts at the gate they didn’t seem to know about the existence of even one of these. They recommended we just go to the main watering hole. This is where Mad Dogs and Englishmen say ‘pah’ in the face of good advice, egged on by the fact that a hide was marked on the map they had given us, which was a photocopy of a...
