At this zoo, we're in the cage!
Trip Start
Feb 01, 2007
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Trip End
May 30, 2007
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Tsumeb,
Namibia
Saturday, April 21, 2007
We had to hire a car, because they won't let us in on our bicycles. But, look at what we rented, is that a lot safer from a charging elephant then our bicycles?
The two highlights were seeing a lion with his fresh kill. He was hard to miss, because there was a stack of other parked cars on the road near him. While we got to watch he was just hanging out watching us watching him. He seemed to be done eating and onto the digesting part of the meal. There was a jackal circling him waiting for the leftovers. The lion didn't seem to mind us all watching him, but he did get up and move away from us when a big maintance truck rumbled by.
The second highlight was seeing two elephants! We came around a corner and boom, there he was, butt in the road. There were a lot of shrubs around that area, so it was hard to see what he was doing, but after inching closer (not too close!) we could see he was butting heads with another elephant. Reverse! Don't get in the way of elephants fighting! So, we hung out for 15min and waiting for that to calm down and for them to go back to eating leaves. They don't gently pick off each leaf, they just grab the whole branch with their trunk and yank, all sorts of splitting branch noises let us know they were back to eating.
Etosha is interesting; it's mostly the normal Namibia landscape, small scrub trees and sand. But in the middle is the Etosha pan, which is a very big, very flat and very dry area, which in extreme flooding, turns into a lake. A cool thing to look out on, hard to capture on film.
Next we're heading down to Swakopmund. We've been off the bikes for over a week now; time to get going under our own steam again!
