452. EL PARQUE NACIONAL DE ETOSHA EN NAMIBIA.
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 155.38 mi
- Elevation gain
- 318 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 318 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,973 ft
- TrailRank
- 39
- Min elevation
- 3,973 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2550
- Uploaded
- June 13, 2023
- Recorded
- June 2023
near Okaukuejo, Outjo (Republic of Namibia)
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The jewel of Namibia's nature is its Etosha National Park. It is one of the largest in Africa, and shelters a multitude of animals.
Its name means "great white place of dry water", and it is a white lot of more than 5000 km² that a few days a year the rains turn into a shallow lagoon. However, life is found in its perimeter, there in a parched environment inhabits its varied fauna, which is made up of 340 species of birds, 114 of reptile mammals, amphibians, and innumerable insects. The first Europeans arrived here in 1856, however the park has had its current configuration since 1970, when its current situation was defined. In its origins, the innumerable fences that limit both the park environment and private estates did not exist as they do today.
Etosha can be explored by private vehicle, with 2/3 of the park open to the general public and the rest for tour operators. The entrance to the park is delimited by its access gates, where you have to pay a fee to enter, in a stay from dawn to dusk. Once the closing time has been decreed, you will not be able to enter the park, however, to leave it, it is enough to sound the horn and listen to the warnings of the park staff about the dangers that it contains at night due to its fauna.
Some rules for touring the park and observing the animals.
The main observation places, which are also delimited, are the waterholes, or troughs. Thus we will find different types of animals in peaceful coexistence, such as zebras, giraffes, antelopes, etc. Many of them, especially in times of extreme drought, are maintained artificially. Blocks of salt are sometimes provided to the animals.
Best time of the day. Although we can meet at any time, dawn or dusk is preferable, times when they go to the ponds, avoid the heat and are preferred by some of them for hunting. At night it is also very active for some animals, but private visits cannot leave the camps, although guided night circuits are organized, where we can see, or at least try, hunt the lion.
What animals will we see? Fundamentally herbivores, impalas, antelopes, onyks, zebras, etc. It is impressive to see the giraffes, so close to us. Elephants, usually in herds. Isolated rhino, buffalo and rhino. At first it will surprise us how all the animals coexist peacefully, and the relationship with the humans they treat many times, they answer by showing their rear.
Rules to follow: the vehicle cannot leave under any circumstances, even not open the door and lean out. We may be reprimanded, even sanctioned, for violating this rule. The tracks are perfectly signposted and are very easy to navigate, with the only inconvenience in the dry months of the cloud of dust in which we will travel. Several cars stopped at one point means that an animal is nearby.
How much time is needed: Our one-day route was notoriously sketchy. Two or three days can be convenient to observe its different sectors.
Its name means "great white place of dry water", and it is a white lot of more than 5000 km² that a few days a year the rains turn into a shallow lagoon. However, life is found in its perimeter, there in a parched environment inhabits its varied fauna, which is made up of 340 species of birds, 114 of reptile mammals, amphibians, and innumerable insects. The first Europeans arrived here in 1856, however the park has had its current configuration since 1970, when its current situation was defined. In its origins, the innumerable fences that limit both the park environment and private estates did not exist as they do today.
Etosha can be explored by private vehicle, with 2/3 of the park open to the general public and the rest for tour operators. The entrance to the park is delimited by its access gates, where you have to pay a fee to enter, in a stay from dawn to dusk. Once the closing time has been decreed, you will not be able to enter the park, however, to leave it, it is enough to sound the horn and listen to the warnings of the park staff about the dangers that it contains at night due to its fauna.
Some rules for touring the park and observing the animals.
The main observation places, which are also delimited, are the waterholes, or troughs. Thus we will find different types of animals in peaceful coexistence, such as zebras, giraffes, antelopes, etc. Many of them, especially in times of extreme drought, are maintained artificially. Blocks of salt are sometimes provided to the animals.
Best time of the day. Although we can meet at any time, dawn or dusk is preferable, times when they go to the ponds, avoid the heat and are preferred by some of them for hunting. At night it is also very active for some animals, but private visits cannot leave the camps, although guided night circuits are organized, where we can see, or at least try, hunt the lion.
What animals will we see? Fundamentally herbivores, impalas, antelopes, onyks, zebras, etc. It is impressive to see the giraffes, so close to us. Elephants, usually in herds. Isolated rhino, buffalo and rhino. At first it will surprise us how all the animals coexist peacefully, and the relationship with the humans they treat many times, they answer by showing their rear.
Rules to follow: the vehicle cannot leave under any circumstances, even not open the door and lean out. We may be reprimanded, even sanctioned, for violating this rule. The tracks are perfectly signposted and are very easy to navigate, with the only inconvenience in the dry months of the cloud of dust in which we will travel. Several cars stopped at one point means that an animal is nearby.
How much time is needed: Our one-day route was notoriously sketchy. Two or three days can be convenient to observe its different sectors.
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Information point
3,694 ft
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Fauna
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