Tuesday morning we left at the backpacker in Windhoek. The new destination was Etosha National Park, more in the north of Namibia.Etosha National Park is one of the world’s greatest wildlife-viewing venues. ‘Ethosha’ means ‘Great White Place of Dry Water’; this refers to the vast greenish-white Ethosha Pan, an immense flat, saline desert.
To our surprise we already arrived there in the early afternoon. We got a massive camp site in Okaukuejo for ourselves where you could easily put up 10 tents. After putting up the tent, we went to have a look at the waterhole in Okaukuejo. This is very nice, a waterhole only 200m away from the camping. At the waterhole you can see animals passing by the whole day and night. It’s also very nice at night because they have got lights pointed at the waterhole. We immediately saw some elephants and huge herds of zebras drinking. After this we went into the park to the western points of interest in the park. We saw a rhino and some other game.
After driving around for a while, we returned to our tent to start our fire and to prepare dinner. In the late evening we went back to the waterhole where we saw again some rhinos, zebra’s and jackals.
The next morning we left early to drive through the park to Halali, the eastern rest camp. On the way we stopped at all the points of interest. Along the road we saw elephants, giraffes, rhinos, gemsboks, springboks, blue wildebeests, some nice birds etc. We even saw a lion sunning next to a waterhole.
In the evening we made a fire again and went back to the waterhole. Etosha is really the best game viewing place where we have ever been, it’s even much nicer than Kruger National Park. The camping is very expensive but it’s worth it; you see plenty of game, there are clean toilets and showers, the camping spots are very nice, etc.
mooie vogeltjes, je weet daar ben ik gek van.