 Photo: Tomosuke (creativecommons.org) By Roxanne Reid
Imagine having a battle with a honey badger for possession of your campsite in the dead of night. That’s what happened to us when we visited Etosha National Park in Namibia.
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It was our first morning at Halali camp in Namibia’s Etosha National Park, so we were up and ready for action as soon as the gate opened. Bingo! While the morning light was still soft, we found four cheetah in a flat-topped acacia tree at Salvadora waterhole on the edge of the pan.  By Roxanne Reid
He’s a woolly little creature weighing less than 160 grams, can rotate his head almost 180-degrees like an owl, has oversized naked ears and is a spectacular jumper. And he’s by far the cutest primate on the planet.  By Roxanne Reid
I’m as excited as a child seeing the ocean for the first time. ‘Look, the pan is full of water!’ I shriek. ‘Don’t be daft,’ my companion says, ‘it’s just a mirage.’  By Roxanne Reid
Goas waterhole, Etosha National Park. We sit and we wait, full of reminiscences of what we’ve seen here in the past – a pride of 15 lions, elephants scratching their bottoms on that dead tree over there, a spotted hyena, an anthology of zebra and buck.  By Roxanne Reid
We’re perched on the rocks of a small hill that provides an amphitheatre view of the Moringa waterhole at Etosha National Park's Halali camp. It’s our chance to grab a last few remnants of warmth from the rocks before the sun sets and the show begins.  By Roxanne Reid
Northern Namibia’s Etosha National Park is so vast and varied, it’s hard to sum it up in just 10 points, but here are some fast-fact basics. |
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