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  Etosha Pan, Namibia
Sunday, January 6, 2008

Next stop Namibia, which is 80% dessert.  There is such a difference in the countries the further south we get. I noticed it in Botswana but even more so here.  There's no longer mud huts & swollen bellied kids with no shoes....or very few anyway.  Instead everyone is well dressed & the towns very westernised.  The white population is also increasing, it was strange being served in a shop for the first time by a white woman.  Its far more civilised & makes things like communication, shopping for food etc. easier but the countries are loosing some of the charm that the likes of Tanzania & Malawi had so much of.

I didn't really expect anything speacial from Etosha National Park as the Serengeti had been so good, but it was fantastic.  We made our way through the Etosha Pan staying at a different campsite each night.  Very swish campsites aswell with tiled showers, marble sinks, swimming pools & bars

Etosha NP

.  Think i'm suffering more culture shock returing to the Western way of life than when I first arrived in Malawi!  Rather than going out on game drives in 4 by 4s with a guide we took the truck out ourselves, which meant we had to be on the look out all the time.  Is was good though when we spotted animals ourselves.  We saw plenty of giraffes, springbok etc & had a huge male elephant right beside the truck within touching distance!  But the highlight..........a lion kill!  We spotted a female lion walking along beside the road minding her own business.  Then just on cue a little wart hog comes running out of the bushes (minding it's own business)!  There wasn't much of a chase but still amazing to see, they say a 1 in a million chance.  Each night we went down to the floodlit waterholes, sometimes lucky & other times not, it was just luck if you were there at the right time.  Our second night we went to watch the sunset & couldn't believe it when there were about 40 elephants all swimming & drinking at the waterhole.  It was amazing to see, babies playing & older ones fighting.  Definately an animal highlight of the trip! 

Next stop Swakopmund.............

P.s. Forgot to say Happy New Year!  Hope you all had a good time.  Not long now til I'm home......hope you're counting the days! 

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Giraffe at a watering hole	Lion spotting	He got a bit too close for comfort	All the gang at Etosha Pan
Me.... & the dessert	Watching the sunset	Cheetah Park	Cheetah
Himba tribe	Twins	Himba woman in her hut	Kids posing for the camera
Me & Maizy!	Young girl making mealie meal	Smelly seals	There were thousands yuck!

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