Toughest and exciting Pans' walk ever

Friday, July 27, 2018

Walkers walking on water at Makgadikgadi PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

Every year during the President’s Day Holidays daring walkers venture on the flat plains of Makgadikgadi Pans with Y Care Charitable Trust to walk 114 km for charity. This year, due to the unusually wet pans, the walk was gruelling than ever before. Mmegi’s intrepid Staff Writer, THALEFANG CHARLES joined the walkers

I discovered the Y-Care Makgadikgadi Pans walk exactly 10 years ago, but I was only able to experience the walk for the first time a year later in 2009. The 2009 edition where we walked from Thabatshukudu near Nata to Lekhubu Island was my debut walk experience.

Back then, the Pans were regarded as ‘sacred’ thanks to the people from Jack’s Camp located in the western side of Makgadikgadi Pans.

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