From Windhoek we team up with an Israeli couple, H and A, and head north to Etosha National Park, Namibia's big safari hotspot. Way back before my journey down Africa started I promised myself that there would be no expensive safaris along the way as they would rapidly leech the life out of my bank balance. However, Etosha is irresistibly cheap; the combination of five people in the car actually making this far from a financial splurge. In two days I spend $75 on everything - car hire, fuel, park entry, camping and food. Bargain! Also, as the only one registered to the car, H does all the driving. Bigger bargain! Now, I could easily be tempted into many a tautological paroxysm of adverbs about just how unfathomably, fabulously, fantastically, magnificently, magically, monumentally, insanely, impossibly, incredibly
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