Acacia Tree and Saltpan

The Etosha pan, "Etosha" literally means the 'Great White Place of Dry Water', is a huge salt pan around which the Etosha National Park sits. Acacia trees are numerous and provide some of the only shade for the park's large population of animals - it's also very photogenic (for a tree).

The Rest of Namibia & Etosha National Park

January 5th 2008
It is now the 23rd January (I started writing this entry on the 5th) and we are in Dar es Salaam after leaving our overland tour a day early to avoid traveling into Kenya. This is the first Internet cafe with equipment fast enough to upload photos etc that we have encountered in the last month! In order to avoid fatigue, yours and mine, I will break down the last several weeks into a number of d ... read more

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South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War I and administered it as a mandate until after World War II, when it annexed the territory. In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla gr... ... read more

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