Well, I actually ended up writing about the BNC in the last post, rather than Etosha, so now I will actually write about Etosha. Our trip to Etosha was a real live safari! I never thought I would go on a safari, but I did, and it was spectacular!! We went shopping for food on Thursday morning (the 8th), and bought things like muesli, pasta, stir fry mix, and kabobs...and we sort of found smores stuff! So we worked Thursday, and then that night we went to an amazing restaurant in town called Joe's Beerhouse, which is the local game restaurant. It is an indoor/outdoor seating place, with big long tables for groups (we were 14 people), and fantastic food! I ordered one of the most popular meals at Joe's, the Bushman Kabob, which consisted of 5 types of meat and a bread type roll. The meats were: chicken, zebra, oryx, ostrich, and crocodile. By far, in my opinion, the best was ostrich, followed by zebra! Oryx tasted like beef, and crocodile was very chewy and fatty. But ostrich, I could eat everyday! We had a great time at the restaurant just hanging out, getting to know each other better, and stuffing ourselves silly! So after dinner, we headed home, because we needed to leave the house at 2:30 AM!!! It's a five hour drive to Etosha and we wanted to have the entire Friday there, to make the most out of our trip! So at 2:30, we headed out, having each taken a short nap before we left. When we finally arrived, at around 8 AM, we checked into our campsite, dropped our gear off, grabbed some coffee, and headed out on safari!! I was so excited!! My one goal for the trip (aside from work at the Center, but my own touristy fun goal), was to see a zebra! And let me tell you, we weren't even inside the park for 10 minutes when we saw first an ostrich, then...5 lionesses and 2 lions cubs!!, and then an entire herd of ZEBRA!!!! So, before we were even at our campsite, I had seen lions, ostriches, zebras, and hundreds of springbok!! So we drove around the entire day, taking pictures of animals (we saw just about everything in the first day!), including giraffes! I should explain about the campsite. We were staying in a campsite (there are 3 campgrounds in Etosha, we were in the first) called Okaukuejo. Each campground is located right on a watering hole (there are fences so the people are completely safe), and you can just sit by the holes and watch the animals come to drink water. So, lo and behold, the first time I went to the watering hole after driving around all morning, I saw an entire herd of elephants, even babies! They are such spectacular creatures, gigantic, slow, but supoer strong!! So the rest of the day consisted of me sitting by the watering hole reading and watching the animals, then more driving around watching animals! Friday night, we went to the watering hole and saw rhinos (couldn't get good pictures because of the lighting), but they were really cool too!!
Saturday, we drive around as well, and saw more giraffes, elephants, and a bunch of lions. We ended up, over the course of the weekend, seeing babies for almost every animal that we saw! On our way home on Sunday, we stopped at a crocodile farm (there aren't any crocociles in Etosha), and saw hundreds of babies, 44 adults, and a bunch of inbetweens! They were also really cool! So anyways, it was an altogether spectacular weekend, and I would love to go back! I hope you enjoy the pictures!!!
Links to even MORE pictures!!
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