Etosha

Trip Start Oct 01, 2005
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Trip End Sep 20, 2006


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Friday, August 4, 2006

We've done a lot of driving around in Etosha, we've been able to have a good look at the animals and the landscape. We spent only one night at the Okaukuejo campsite - the following day we drove to the second campsite, Namutoni. Despite leaving on our game drive at the crack of dawn we didn't see any cats, but we did see lots of springbok, impala, a few kudu and oryx, some griaffe and even a hyena.

Etosha is an amazing area made up of huge salt-pans, the largest being Etosha Pan. The pans are the most enormous expanses of flat, white landscapes. Some areas have small trees and shrubs growing on the edge of the pan, but mostly its just uninterrupted flatness. The bush is all yellows and browns and the pans are just white/grey all the way to the horizon. The weather is typical winter desert - freezing when there's no sun and baking when there is!

The campsite at Namutoni also had a watering hole, but we sat there for quite a time and absolutely nothing came down to drink which was a shame!
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