Etosha National Park

Not sure what time we got up exactly...but I can tell you it was early !! We had to drive to Etosha national Park - so another big drive made up of the usual, lunch stop at 12pm for more of the famous Paloney sandwiches...famous for their motony and blandness, not for anything good. Seriously we ate these every day, for 3 weeks - variation was adding tomato sauce, or chilli sauce, or not adding onion !

Anyway, the campsite at Etosha was nice, right in the national park with a big fence around it. Two weeks ago 2 lions got in during the night and had to been chased off by rangers - no doubt scaring the hell out of all the campers.... They also had game viewing from the campsite at night, with a watering hold set up with flood lights... unfortunately we didn't see anything except one stork :( so we went to the bar :)

That night jackals ran amok in the campsite, and anything left on the crowd was dragged about the place - Josie confronting 5 of them on her nightly pee.

The next day was a full day game drive through the middle of the park. What a contrasts to the Serengeti - this place was dry, and rocky with little grass and trees. This was the dry season here - with the massive Etosha Pan basically a desert. We saw a pride of lions with a kill, cubs, males and with Jackals fighting over the bones. Along with the other animals you always see, I call the 'food' animals. We arrived in a similar campsite that night - with a better viewing hole and were treated to Rhinos (a mother and her baby) coming down to the watering hole to drink. One of those moments with its own kind of magic !!