At night on Botswana's Makgadikgadi Pans, the silence is so intense you can almost hear it.

The salt pans are isolated from civilisation and the nearest town, Maun, is more than two hours' drive away. The vast pan we’re encamped upon is the size of Belgium, and stretches about 270km south of our little tent village set at the pan’s northern edge...

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