The Kalahari Desert covers over 360,000 square miles in Africa. Unlike many deserts, or even the common perception of a desert, it includes large areas of lush grazing land after rains fall. In fact, it’s considered a semi-arid desert, unlike the super dry deserts such as the Atacama Desert which receives only about 1 millimeter of rain each year.
While the Kalahari Desert is called a desert, it isn’t a true desert. Some areas receive a great deal of rain – up to 250 millimeters of rain each year. It’s not regular or dependable rain, which gave the area its name. Native languages call this place great thirst or place without water.
The Kahalari Desert wasn’t always a sandy, dry place. There was once a lake there. This lake spanned nearly 80000 square kilometers. By comparison all of the Great Lakes in the United States, five of them, cover about 244,000 square kilometers. It was also about 30m deep on average. By 10,000 years ago, the lake was completely gone.
Les Stroud, the Survivorman from television, spent six days in the Kalahari Desert filming one of his episodes. The temperature in the shade was nearly 108
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