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Etosha National Park – Self drive Safari
Posted by daveb on September 25th, 2008
A self-drive safari in Etosha National Park in northern Namibia demonstrated to us how demanding being a professional safari driver/guide must be and, whilst we love our 4×4 camping car, the value of riding in a customised safari vehicle with raising roof for the panoramic experience.
Aside from lions, which we only spotted from great distance, we had good luck wildlife-spotting at the park over our three days and managed to tick-off our outstanding sightings and essential experiences, including:
- Observing a rhino at close range — completing our ‘Big Five’ checklist.
- Being chased down the road by a lone male elephant. (Lone male elephants are dangerous as they’ve been disowned by the group for their bad-boy behaviour!)
- Having a zebra at arm’s length smile at us.
- Watching an elephant fight — apparently so rare, that even the professional safari guides were videoing the action!
- Giraffe drinking from a watering-hole — oh so cute.
This is our last scheduled wildlife safari in Africa, so we hope you enjoy the photos.
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Comment from Beno
Time: September 26, 2008, 8:35 am
All those pictures of animals is making me hungry…;-)
Got your postcard yesterday – thanks!
With all the sights, cultural attitudes and living conditions you’ve been describing and writing about, sending a postcard somehow seems quite surreal; are you sure you’re not in Ibiza?
Cheers chaps – safe journeying!
Comment from daveb
Time: September 26, 2008, 9:08 am
@Beno:
In general, we’ve found the speed of the postal service in Africa to be quite remarkable. Once past the post office clerks, whose job it is to extort as much money as possible from tourists shipping wooden giraffes, the post generally takes about a fortnight even from the deepest, darkest enclaves. The African postcard record is about 3 days. Bearing in my, anything my sister posts from the UAE to the UK seems to take a month, I am *really* impressed, Africa!
Comment from claire
Time: September 27, 2008, 7:57 am
Pahhh……my mum just received three postcards on one day which I’d sent from two different countries a few weeks apart. I think they store them up somewhere in postcard hold then send them in a batch. This is not the first time it’s happened…….
Comment from Mum N.
Time: September 28, 2008, 4:08 pm
Well Dave no need to think about what business to set up when ( or if ) you return to England. Just stay in Africa and become an animal dentist – that smiley zebra ( aaaah ) looked in desperate need of a scale and polish . Hope you are still having fun
Love Mum N. xx
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