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Lake Ngami
Lake Ngami is an endorheic lake basin located southwest of the Okavango Delta in Ngamiland District, Botswana. Famous in world history as the 'lost lake' reached by David Livingstone and Charles Andersson in 1849, the lake is notorious for its dramatic hydrological cycles, transforming periodically from a sprawling inland sea teeming with wildlife into a bone-dry, cracked desert pan for decades at a time. The lakebed is steeped in Batawana and Bayei folklore regarding phantom waters, drowned 19th-century settlements, disembodied cattle lowing, and spirit mirages that lure travelers into treacherous mudflats.