When full, the pan is particularly beautiful with its waving palm trees and its bird life.
Even when it's dry, there's a lot to see: Stone Age artefacts abound and the hunting blinds (used initially by San to ambush their quarry) are still visible.
Look for an especially well-preserved one under a tree on the west side.
An equally famous, though less visited tree, Chapman's Baobab, lies to the southeast of Green's Baobab.
This tree is visible from a great distance across the pan and is worth seeing if only for its size and photogenic qualities (the colossal, six-stemmed specimen measures 24,8 m in girth at about 1,5 m above ground level).
It was certainly a landmark for early explorers of the region, and a casual examination will reveal the initials of James Chapman, members of the ill-fated Helmore-Price expedition and other well-known explorers.
The cavity between the main trunks is reported to have been used as a post box by travellers from both north and south.
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