Blogs from Etosha National Park, Namibia, Africa - page 6

June 7th I woke up stiff as a plank of wood, I hadn’t slept on two sleeping mats as I typically do, and the roof of the truck is as hard as metal…weird eh? Since we woke up so early we didn’t have much of a breakfast at the camp but rather just tea. Being the awesome driver that Farron is, he had made some sandwiches for us to munch on while we entered the park. Before we knew it we had entered Etosha National Park and began searching for game life. Right away we had giraffes grazing next to the side of the road, a stones throw away from the windows of the truck. That really was child’s play because once we got to the watering hole about an hour into the drive we were ... read more

Another early start and another race to have breakfast and put the tents down by 07h00. This morning was a record and we managed to leave the camp site by 06h45! Fortunately it wasn't a cold night although the wind of the previous afternoon had disappeared. Most of the sand from the Namib was now in my tent, even though I'd closed the air vents and zipped the flaps tight. We were all settling down to the start of the journey when a Cheetah ran across the road and into the grass. None of us was prepared and no cameras were out. In fact, this was not Cheetah country so it was a surprise even for our guide! Roughly an hour into the journey, we stopped outside a local village and went to meet the Himba ... read more

We cossed into Namibia at Oshikango and after shopping and a few beers pushed on and camped at a small wildlife park. The next day we arrived at Etosha National Park and spent 2 nights there. We had multiple game drives on our truck and drove across to the west at Okaukuejo for the second night. The variety of game was enormous. Lion,elephant,giraffe,cheetah,rhino,oryx,plus many more. The next day 29th July marked our departure from the group at Ouitjo where we met Mike and Carla,local residents with whom we stayed for 3 days before we drove to Windhoek where we stayed at camelian backpackers and enjoyed a pleasant time celebrating our anniversary and generally sightseeing. We then flew to Capetown.... read more

Greeting from Botswana, we are sat in a airport waiting for our flight into the Delta here is our Etosha blog Like Kevin Myers’ life long dream of climbing killamjaro, Adam to has a long standing ambition. Ever since his dad bought him the video “The lions of Etosha” when he was 10 years old he has always wanted to visit this unique place, lets hope it will be worth the wait, as we all know that was a long time ago… We drove to Etosha from Palmwag 350 km, the first 200 km were bump after bump, we hit tar road for the last 150km, whoever thought that a smooth road surface would feel like such a luxury! We spent the fist two nights camping at Okaukuejo, and the next two nights at Halali which ... read more

Nach so viel Landschaft war es mal wieder Zeit, ein paar Tierchen zu gucken. Wohlwissend, dass die Campingplaetze ueberteuert sind und die Lodges schon gar nicht mehr zu zahlen sind, gingen wir fuer 3 Tage in den Etosha Nationalpark. Es lohnte sich aber absolut. 200 Meter hinter dem Eingangstor legten wir mit dem Volksie eine Vollbremsung hin - wir haetten sonst eine Giraffe verkarrt. Sind ja auch leicht zu uebersehen, die langen Kerlchen. Die Giraffe hat es nicht gestoert, sie futterte weiter ihren Dornbusch. So ging es am ersten Tag weiter: eine Giraffe nach der anderen zeigte sich uns, zum Anfassen nah. Wir fragten uns, ob es noch andere Tiere gibt im Etosha als Giraffen. Es dauerte aber nicht lang, da trafen wir die ersten Elis. Ein Elefant wollte doch dann prompt unseren Volksie angreifen. Er ... read more