Kubu Island

This is the most popular island of the whole pans complex and, unlike other islands, that are dunes of petrified sand, Kubu Island is made up of a granite outcrop, as well as Kukome Island, that is also in the Sua Pan.

The island is in fact made up of a granite outcrop or kopje about 1 km long and 10 meters high; its slopes, in some points, appear to be terraced, here there are many rounded pebbles, that were shaped by the movement of the waves of the lake in the past.

On Kubu Island there are several twisted baobab that are estimated to be 3,000 or 4,000 years old; they are impressive not only for their size but also because they seem to have so much to tell about the history of this island.

Some scholars have found that these baobabs have had a huge growth over a certain period of their life, some 1,500 years ago, this suggests that, despite the Makgadikgadi Lake has dried up 10,000 years ago, at that time there was water again; subsequently, these marvellous giants have slowed down their growth, due to the lack of water.