Etosha National Park is 22,000 square kilometers of wildlife wonderland in northwestern Namibia. Over the course of three days, we made our way from the eastern side of the park to the western side, driving along a huge salt flat and spotting animals everywhere:
As soon as we entered the park, we saw zebras having a meal on the side of the road.
At the Namutoni rest camp, there is a fort which now houses a restaurant, bar, and gift shops.
A family of warthogs crossing the lawn.
The watering hole at the Namutoni rest camp.
A cloudy and beautiful sunset on our first night at Etosha.
As we were leaving the Namutoni camp to go to the other side of the park, a group of banded mongooses emerged in front of our room and started running and tumbling around.
A blue crane in the foreground and a pair of springboks in the background.
A southern yellow-billed hornbill sitting on an acacia tree.
An oryx lounges at the salt flat.
Gorgeous rainy season scenery.
A dirt path leading to the salt flat.
A tortoise moving rather quickly across the mud.
A greater kestrel.
An ostrich!
A springbok sips from a puddle.
The watering hole at the Okaukuejo rest camp.
Giraffes!
A blue wildebeest.
A silhouette of a jackal at the watering hole in the evening.
Twilight at the Okaukuejo watering hole on our last evening in Etosha.
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Ekua…you’re so lucky to have seen all those animals!! Go you
(also, normally i find pigs and all animals pig-related abhorrent, but – and i never thought i’d say this – those warthogs are THE! CUTEST!!)
Yes, I’m really grateful that I had the chance to see all these animals in their natural habitat!
Warthogs are probably the ugliest animals I’ve ever seen, but to see the little ones tagging along with the mother was super cute.
Incredible!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE that last pic, wow!
Thanks
Some really lovely pictures – I especially love the one of the kestrel! It looks quite green and verdant in all of the pictures, which usually means the veld is thick and one can’t see any animals, but it looks like you were lucky enough to spot all the pretty ones anyway
See, Namibia isn’t all sand
We were there in rainy season which I’m sure you know isn’t the ideal time for this sort of thing, but we saw quite a bit of animals and the scenery was beautiful. There were a couple more animals that we spotted, I’ll get to that in the next post!
Lovely photos. You are so lucky to see some many animals! I love zebra shots. I have recently travelled to Sri Lanka and visited the Yala National Park, amazing place with wild animals.
Thanks for stopping by. It was hard to narrow down the zebra shots because I had so many! Whenever they stood together, their stripes lined up in such interesting ways.
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