Etosha National Park

Have just spent two days in Etosha National Park. To be honest, I could describe it in one of two ways - I mean it was cool to see lots of animals, but it also gets a little waring crammed in a truck with thirty other travellers for 11 hours.

We saw in total 16 lions, dozens of zebra and giraffes. And lots of other big game like wildebeest, haartbeest, oryx and countless others. Before I went to a nature reserve I didnt really expect such well known African wildlife like zebras and giraffes and elephants to all share the same habitat and live so close by, but of course I now know they do.


On the first night we saw a couple of elephants and five zebras all drinking from the same well, at sunset, which was pretty cool. You wouldn't believe how big an elephants penis is - its the same length as one of its legs!

It rained when we set up camp so it wasn't that nice camping. But the wildlife was incredible. The animals are all so graceful. As they have so many predators all the grazing animals, the gazelles, the oryx and so on, all have to be able to run fast so they all have very muscular athletic bodies.

Got up at quater to five again this morning and I'm off to the Okavango delta pretty soon.