Kubu Island Quad Bike Expedition

Happy Friday!

This is Adventure Fix, the exploration email for people who know the more places you go, the longer your travel list grows.

Today we’re traveling to Botswana, for a Quad Bike Expedition to Kubu Island.

Kubu Island Quad Bike Expedition

Rev your engine and traverse the endless pans on a quad bike to Kubu Island, a.k.a, the Lost Island of the Baobabs.

Lose all sense of time and direction as you cruise along the vast, moon-like terrain of Makgadikgadi Pans. Once a super-lake, its crusty flats are filled with salt, sand, and stones.

This part of Botswana is home to many desert-adapted mammals like meerkats and bat-eared foxes.

Reaching Kubu Island is a highlight of this trip. It’s a dry granite rock island that’s filled with ancient, gnarled baobabs that are larger than buses. Here you’ll find fossil beaches of wave-rounded pebbles, showing evidence of the prehistoric lake’s former water levels.

Sleep out on this crescent-shaped island with nothing more than a bedroll, blanket, and fire for comfort.

Explore More

• Mapping the Makgadikgadi Motherland: a Quad Bike Cruise to Kubu Island (article)

• The oceanless isle: Kalahari Desert’s Kubu island (video)

How To Visit Kubu Island on a Quad Bike Expedition

Although you can travel independently to Kubu Island, the easiest way is to join an organized expeditions offered by a professional operator like SA Bucket List.

A great way to extend this trip and explore more of Botswana is to combine it with a horse safari in the Okavango Delta.

We hope your travels take you in this direction very soon.

Until then - keep exploring!

- Amanda