See wildlife in abundance at Etosha National Park

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See wildlife in abundance at Etosha National Park

The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England

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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Why is it called Seven Sisters cliffs?

East Sussex

The towering Seven Sisters cliffs near Brighton in East Sussex are part of England's South Downs National Park. The cliffs stretch along the Sussex Heritage Coast from Cuckmere Haven to Birling Gap in the East Sussex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

Where are the cliffs of the Seven Sisters?

These rocks are known as seven sisters due to the presence of seven hills that form the face of the rocks. The bright white color of the rock is due to the amount of chalk that forms most of the front part of the rocks.

How long is the Seven Sisters cliff Walk?

The Seven Sisters Cliffs lie between the mouth of the Cuckmere River near Seaford and the chalk mountain of Beachy Head outside Eastbourne. The depressions or howls that separate each of the seven crests from the next are the remnants of dry valleys in the chalk of the South Downs, gradually eroded by the sea.

Why is Seven Sisters famous?

13.5 miles

The Seven Sisters Walk is 21.5km (13.5 miles) from Seaford to Eastbourne or 17.7km (11 miles) from Seaford to East Dean

Can you swim at Seven Sisters?

Seven Sisters is part of the Sussex Heritage Coast and has many layers of archeology and history that reveal glimpses of the people who lived here in the past.

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