NAMIBIA // Etosha offers animal spotting made easy, with its wealth of wildlife practically coming to you. The park is dominated by an immense saline pan that glitters brilliant-white under the Namibian sun, and gives the park its name ('Great White Place' in the local Wambo language). When the rains fall, it turns for a few days into a shallow lagoon teeming with pelicans and up to a million flamingos. Rimming the pan to the south is a string of waterholes, which attract an almost constant parade of wildlife during the dry season. Self-drive safaris are the norm in Etosha, which benefits from an excellent network of well-maintained roads. All you have to do is find a spot by one of the precious ponds and wait for the elephants, lions, rhinos, zebra, oryx and other 100-odd mammal species to come by. And the action doesn't stop after dark. Rest camps within the park have floodlit waterholes, where you can sit and watch as one animal after another comes to quench its thirst.

 

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