14/10/2025
📍🇧🇼 Kgaladagi Transfrontier Park
Mabuasehube Campsite 4 • Motopi Campsite 1 • Nossob Rest Camp • Mata Mata Rest Camp
We made our way from the Moremi all the way south to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
We left our halfway accommodation Kalahari Game Lodge early morning and decided to drive through Kang/Hukuntsi and made our way down to the fence line to the Mabuasehube Gate.
We did not know what to expect from the road, but the conditions were pretty good and made it in around 4 hours to the gate.
Our stay at Mabuasehube Campsite 4 was outstanding with amazing views overlooking the salt pans. We slept in and left camp late before making our way to Motopi Camp 1, approximately halfway between Mabuasehube and Nossob. It has a pit toilet, heaps of trees for shade and that’s about it. We spent the afternoon chilling in the tent and watched our first movie as there was no wildlife around which kept us occupied most of the times.
We decided to stay at Nossob Rest Camp instead of Poletswa which would add another 100km going up north. However, there were so many animals around the Nossob area, where we spent most afternoon exploring the tracks. Nossob is well maintained, has a fuel station, birdwatching nest, shop, clean showers, toilets and kitchen area if you want to cook.
The next day we drove to Mata Mata where we were supposed to cross borders to Namibia. However, there were some miscommunication we did not know about as we needed to stamp out our passports at Twee Rivieren Botswana Border Control, so that we are able to cross through the Mata Mata Gate (South Africa to Namibia).
Long story short, we had to drive 120km each way to get our Botswana departure stamp and drove back to Mata Mata and made it just in time before Border closure (With our next stop still 4 hours away). We arrived at Africa Safari Lodge at 8pm, had a wonderful sleep and continued our journey refreshed the next morning to get our hire car to Toyota for its 10,000km service…
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