Etosha National Park

Kunene & Oshikoto regions, northern Namibia

Mid-range
nature

Africa’s easiest self-drive Big Four park: a 120 km salt pan ringed by floodlit waterholes where black rhino, elephants and lions queue at dusk. Camp inside at Okaukuejo’s waterhole benches, drive the dolomite hills of the west, and let the pan’s mirages do the scenery.

Country: Namibia
Area: Kunene & Oshikoto regions, northern Namibia
Category: nature · Mid-range
Location: -18.8556, 16.5417 — opens OpenStreetMap (needs signal)

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Etosha National Park — photograph 2 — Rino Adamo, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 3 — Quentin Krattiger, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 4 — Bruno Almeida, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 5 — Rino Adamo, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 6 — Bruno Almeida, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 7 — Rino Adamo, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 8 — Rino Adamo, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 9 — Amar Hussain, via Pexels

Etosha National Park — photograph 10 — Quentin Krattiger, via Pexels