Etosha National Park

Etosha National Park is Namibia’s most famous safari park and is famed for its huge saltpan covering some 120 km (75 miles) across and 55 km (31 miles) from north to south. Its edges give way to a surprising variety of vegetation types and – critically – a series of springs and waterholes that at attract a vast amount of wildlife. It is massive in it’s sheer size as the National Park covers over 2 million hectares (5 500 000 acres) while the salt pan is so vast that it is visible from space.

Etosha’s waterholes attract a high density of big game all year round which makes for great and diverse game viewing specially the Big 5. Travel here in the dry season, and you will find the waterholes home to so many different species at one time, that it is truly a remarkable sight. For this reason, there is nowhere else quite like it.

The second thing to know about Etosha, is that it was built as a reserve to explore independently. The road network is superb, tarmac in places, and is designed to open the park up to self-drive visitors.