On December 2nd, 2020 we left Swakopmund, the coast and the fog. After a leisurely 150-mile drive, we reached Omaruru. Here we stayed for two nights in the Omaruru River Camp and got to know this nice town and its inhabitants better.

Two days later we drove north to Anderson Gate, which is the gateway to Etosha National Park. «Do you have a reservation» asked the friendly ranger at the entrance. No, we didn’t have a reservation without which normally nothing works at this time of the year. But we didn’t need them either, because the Etosha National Park is now, at the beginning of December 2020, about as empty as Zurich Airport was a month earlier when we flew to Windhoek via Frankfort!

On the drive to Okaukuejo, our first camp in the park, we made a detour to a waterhole. It was early afternoon, a time when the animals tend to take a siesta. But a couple of giraffes and zebras preferred to greet us!

PS. The Okaukuejo waterhole, which is illuminated at night, attracts many animals. On December 4th, 2020, when we were there, also twelve (!) black rhinos at the same time. An unforgettable spectacle!