Etosha National Park

We arrived in the posh Ongava lodge in the afternoon. We were let in and had to drive through their own little private game park. Where we saw the first wild animals since the lower Zambezi. But this time in abundance. The lodge was beautiful with a view of a waterhole, swimming pool and a bar that was up to the expectations of my Swiss co-travellers. We camped in the back, basically behind a fence that was separating us from the cats outside. Pretty cool.
The next two day we drove around in the Etosha National Park. Full of giraffes, some cats and small game. We had a good time safariing on ourselves. For C&C in was their first game experience and their enthusiasm made me enjoy it even a bit more than expected.
We spent New Years Eve at the lodge and ate from the buffet. The food was quite average - eventually we went to bed before twelve to leave early bird in the morning to drive to the other side of the park. There we slept one more night at another road side hotel. Carla was understandingly quite tired from all the driving behind us and the many kilometres ahead of us didn't help. Next place of interest was the Damaraland.