DAY 2
Destination: Etosha National Park
……………………………………………………………………………
Today you will spent the whole day in the Etosha
National Park with game viewing from a 4x4 safari
vehicle – at lunch we return to the lodge for a short
‚siesta‘ before we commence our afternoon game
drive into the Park.
The Etosha National Park, consisting of 22 270 sq
km of saline desert, savannah and woodlands, is one
of the largest parks in Africa. Its definitive feature is
the Etosha Pan, a vast, shallow depression of
approximately 5000 sq km. For the greater part of the
year, the pan is a bleak expanse of white cracked
mud which shimmers with mirages on most days. It is
seeing vast herds of game with this eerie „great white
place of dry water“ as a backdrop which makes the
Etosha experience unique. A total of about 114
mammal species are found in the park, including
several rare and endangered, such as black rhino and
black-faced impala. About 300 bird species occur in
the park, of which approximately one third are
migratory, including the European bee-eater and
several species of waders.
Return to the lodge in the late afternoon.
Dinner, Bed and Breakfast