Try volcano surfing or driving a motorbike across the Kalahari Desert, for example.

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The awesome vastness of the Kalahari Desert and its unique collection of wildlife is like an entirely different country stuck into South Africa.

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The backbone of this would-be tourism boom is nature-viewing safaris to places like Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta and the vast Kalahari Desert.

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The only blot on its reputation for tolerance is its government's policy of forcing the once nomadic Bushmen, a tiny minority now known as the San, from the Kalahari desert to settle in villages.

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