The Kalahari

Vast Area of Red Sand Dunes

The word ‘Kalahari’ was taken from the Tswana Kgala, which means ‘great thirst’ or ‘waterless place’. This regions is a vast area of red sand dunes, stretching across Botswana, Namibia and Northern Cape South Africa.

However, the Kalahari Desert is not a desert in the strictest sense of the word. It receives too much rainfall and these resources makes life in the Kalahari possible for the San people, hunter-gatherers who have lived in this desert for more than 20,000 years and are believed to be the oldest continuous residents of southern Africa.