Photo Album: On the Way to Etosha National Park
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The next big destination was the World famous Etosha National Park, in central northern Namibia, which has a very large salt pan. I was very lucky to have been able to book into two out of three of the camps inside Etosha, just before I left home a month ago, in this peak tourist season.
At Roy's Camp, I managed to secure the bookings for two external camp sites, one before entering the park at the western gate ( Von Lindequist Gate ), and one, after exiting from Anderson Gate.
With all the accommodations ready, I started the near 300 Km trip to Etosha from Roy's Camp without too many issues at the back of my mind.
About 60 Km down the road, is Grootfontein, which is just a small town. There was supposed to be a old German fort somewhere, however, I could not find it.
At Roy's Camp, I managed to secure the bookings for two external camp sites, one before entering the park at the western gate ( Von Lindequist Gate ), and one, after exiting from Anderson Gate.
With all the accommodations ready, I started the near 300 Km trip to Etosha from Roy's Camp without too many issues at the back of my mind.
About 60 Km down the road, is Grootfontein, which is just a small town. There was supposed to be a old German fort somewhere, however, I could not find it.
However, I was able to find my way to the World Largest Meteorite, the Hoba Meteorite which is some 20 Km outside of the township.
Here is the Wikipedia entry for Hoba Meteroite....which is also a National Monument of Namibia.
Then it was time to stop at Tsumeb for a brief lunch, another small town with a decent sized shopping mall and quite a bit of green and leafy gardens,
About 22 Km before Etosha, seeing that there were time on hand, I decided to spend an hour or so at Lake Otjikoto, which really is a sink hole, part of a collapsed cave.
Before the German surrendered to the British Army in this part of the empire, they dumped a host of heavy weapons, though some were recovered, the list below shows which are still in the deep lake, plus a sealed safe of gold bullion which has not been found so far.
A python tree that strangles another tree, eventually killing it.
I finally reached Onguma Bush Camp just outside the Von Lindequist Gate in the mid afternoon.
After the gate guard checked with the office of my confirmed booking, I had to drive for about 10Km before reaching the reception. Here is one telling sign on the internal road,
Onguma is itself a private game park on the western side of Etosha National Park, and they run safaris of their own. This offers a good options for the fly-in-fly-out tourists who do not have the time, but I prefer to self drive wherever and whenever possible.
Besides these 5 star rated huts, Onguma also offers camping.
The camp sites, for about US$20, comes with its own private bathroom and toilet, plus an outdoor kitchen, a fire place and wait....a padded area for the tent ! I call that Quality.
Within a short walk, there is the restaurant, swimming pool, and a fenced water hole, where we could sit down at and after sunset, with our drinks, camera or what-have-you, view animals coming and going, fetching their drinks.
Here is a jackal,
and some naive impalas, with the stalking jackal..
And another glorious African sunset....
So now I am at the Von Lindequist Gate of Etosha National Park, getting ready for a 3 day self drive safari into this major and unique attraction of Namibia.
Here is the Wikipedia entry for Hoba Meteroite....which is also a National Monument of Namibia.
It really is a big piece of iron with fairly high content of nickel, weighting in at over 60 tonnes.
Before the German surrendered to the British Army in this part of the empire, they dumped a host of heavy weapons, though some were recovered, the list below shows which are still in the deep lake, plus a sealed safe of gold bullion which has not been found so far.
A python tree that strangles another tree, eventually killing it.
I finally reached Onguma Bush Camp just outside the Von Lindequist Gate in the mid afternoon.
After the gate guard checked with the office of my confirmed booking, I had to drive for about 10Km before reaching the reception. Here is one telling sign on the internal road,
Onguma is itself a private game park on the western side of Etosha National Park, and they run safaris of their own. This offers a good options for the fly-in-fly-out tourists who do not have the time, but I prefer to self drive wherever and whenever possible.
Besides these 5 star rated huts, Onguma also offers camping.
The camp sites, for about US$20, comes with its own private bathroom and toilet, plus an outdoor kitchen, a fire place and wait....a padded area for the tent ! I call that Quality.
Within a short walk, there is the restaurant, swimming pool, and a fenced water hole, where we could sit down at and after sunset, with our drinks, camera or what-have-you, view animals coming and going, fetching their drinks.
Here is a jackal,
and some naive impalas, with the stalking jackal..
And another glorious African sunset....
So now I am at the Von Lindequist Gate of Etosha National Park, getting ready for a 3 day self drive safari into this major and unique attraction of Namibia.
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