The Gondwana group have three accommodation sites in the area. From most expensive to least, The Safari Lodge which I am in, the Village which [USER=30916]@bPeteb[/USER] and Al were in and the Safari Camp.
The first of two nights we were here we didn’t eat at our lodge but drove the short distance down to the Safari camp. There we had their buffet which is absolutely nothing to write home about and we were supposed to stay for the local entertainment. It was okay, but we are all pretty tired so we decamped pretty early.
A 6:30 am departure this morning for a full days game drive in Etosha. The idea is to get to the gate early, as it only opens at sunrise which was 715 today. issue being that everyone wants to get in as early as possible and there is paperwork to be done at the gate so if you will bemiles back andit’ll take you long time to actually get into the into the park. We were number five which is a very good effort.
First sighting
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Soon followed by black rhino ( with horn) and youngster. Unlike Madikwe, we are not allowed to go off the formed roads here.
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We then we fanged east to reach the edge of the great salt pan of Etosha.
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And there, lying in wait, were these guys.
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Didn’t do anything just hanging out. Within 10 minutes there will possibly 15 vehicles at the viewpoint but being early we had 'pride' of place. Our driver today was very very good. He always got us a good viewing position at the popular spots.
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