On our way to Etosha National Park we met up with Sylvia and Friedwart, the Swiss couple, again. They had once lived in Namibia for a few years and were now travelling for a longer period of time as well.
We spent four days in Etosha National Park. It was absolutely amazing to see so many animals in their natural habitat.
The rhinoceros is critically endangered... We have been lucky to see both the white rhino and the black rhino already quite a few times but most of the times their horns have been cut, to prevent poachers being interested in the animals...
This lucky one still had its horns.
The Etosha salt pan is the largest of its kind in Africa. We don't know what the moon's surface feels like, but it for sure did feel like we were on some other planet.
Not every area had a picnic spot so quite often we had lunch in the car. We always tried to find a waterhole to park next to, to enjoy the animals coming for a drink or bath.
During the hottest part of the day, most animals can be found hiding under trees and shrubs, or near waterholes. The first elephants we encountered in this park were all covered in dust, to keep themselves cool. They looked like concrete statues!
Our days usually started around 5:30am, to be ready at 6:15am when the camping gates to the park would open. The early hours were when we often saw a lot of activity.
One morning we spotted the honey badger, right outside our campsite... it was gone too quickly, or maybe I was just too excited to finally see one that I did not get a picture of it ;)
We spent our nights within Etosha National Park at Okaukuejo Camp. It had one of the best floodlit waterholes of the whole park. We spent hours in the hide, watching all the animals come and go. Every hour was different!
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