On Sunday, we visited Etosha National Park in the northeast region of Namibia, about an hour away from our base in Tsumeb. Etosha is an internationally recognized game-viewing park that is well known for its enormous salt pan. The salt pan is a huge depression in the earth that fills with water during exceptionally rainy years. However, in dry seasons, it is a vast expanse of cracked, bright-white soil from the salt. Because of the arid nature of the landscape, many animals are driven to the pan to find water in the drier seasons, which presents an incredible opportunity to view many, many species of Namibian wildlife in one location.
Our visit coincided with the rainy season (Namibia’s summer) which meant that many smaller watering holes throughout the park were full, so unfortunately there were not nearly as many animals rimming the pan as during the rest of the year. However, we still were able to see some incredible sites that were comparable to my last safari at Mikumi National Park in Tanzania.
I will update this post and upload photos from Etosha as soon as I stay up late enough to do so...check back in a couple days!
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