Etosha National Park
— — a white floor the animals walk across.
Not only on a wall.
“A vast salt pan in northern Namibia, ringed by mopane scrub and waterholes that hold whatever can find them. In the dry months, elephants come pale with the dust, and rhinos drink at floodlit pans after dark. The pan itself is roughly 120 kilometres long, a dry lakebed that briefly fills in good rains and pulls flamingos in from the coast. The Etosha name, in Oshindonga, means the great white place. from the studio
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Etosha National Park covers roughly 22,270 square kilometres of northern Namibia, built around the Etosha Pan, a salt flat about 120 kilometres long and 55 kilometres wide. The pan is the dry bed of a lake that drained when the Kunene River shifted course tens of thousands of years ago. The park was proclaimed as a game reserve in 1907 under German colonial administration and became a national park in 1967. Anderson's Gate in the south is the most-used entrance; rest camps at Okaukuejo, Halali, and Namutoni anchor the visitor route.
Etosha runs on two seasons. The dry months, roughly May through October, concentrate wildlife at fixed waterholes and offer the easiest viewing; this is the high season. The wet months, November through April, bring rain to the pan in good years, drawing in lesser flamingos and great white pelicans to breed in the standing water. Daytime temperatures climb above forty degrees Celsius in October. Late dry season is the most reliable window for sightings of black rhino at the floodlit waterhole at Okaukuejo.
Self-drive in a normal sedan is workable on the gravel roads inside the park; the main loops are graded. Park gates open at sunrise and close at sunset, with overnight stays permitted only inside the fenced rest camps. Okaukuejo's floodlit waterhole is the most-watched after dark and regularly brings black rhino, elephant, and lion within a few metres of the viewing wall. Entrance fees apply per person and per vehicle, set by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism. Fuel is available at Okaukuejo, Halali, and Namutoni.