The landscape is disorienting. The view from every angle is the same – flat and barren with barely a tree to mark one’s course. It’s dead straight in all directions and I don’t see anything that even closely resembles a life form, let alone some desert oasis. I think we should turn around. We are deep in the heart of Botswana and I’m starting to get scared.

In this first-person account from AFKTravel.com, Becca Blond relates a story of near-disaster while driving through Botswana’s vast Makgadikgadi Pans.