Western Kalahari
Stretching from the eastern borders with Botswana and South Africa across the southern part of Namibia to the Namib Desert in the west, the Western Kalahari offering a spectacular desert landscape of red sand dotted with quiver trees, interspersed with sweeping grasslands and dusty scrub.
Derived from the Tswana word 'Kgalagadi', meaning 'the great thirst', the Kalahari is one of the world's most extensive mantles of sand.
Many people insist that the Kalahari should not really qualify for the title of 'desert' as it receives more than 100 mm of rain per year. Howver, the sand sheet that covers the Kalahari results in virtually no surface water, and evidence suggests that it may have once been much more arid that it is now. So although commonly called a 'desert', a better description of it would be a 'fossil desert'.
For most visitors to Namibia, this semi-arid region serves as a stop-over during the long journey between Windhoek and the South.
Situated amidst the red rolling dunes of the Kalahari, where the silence is deafening and tranquillity flows in abundance, lies Bagatelle Ranch.
Offering personalized service, fine hospitality, and good home cooked meals, the Ranch is also home to 3 orphaned cheetahs that belong to the Cheetah Conservation Fund and cannot be released in the wild, 2 families of meerkats (suricates), as well as oryx, springbok, blue wildebeest and many more.
