Day 10 Etosha National Park
Today we’ll board our 4x4 safari vehicles for a full-day game drive in the park, before arriving to our lodge this evening. The heart Etosha National park, which was founded as early as 1907, is the 5,000 square kilometre salt pan. This salt pan, which is up to 120 km long and 55 km wide, was formed about 2 - 10 million years ago when the Kunene River flowed into Lake Ekuma, the extension of which formed the Etosha Pan. Later, the Kunene shifted its bed westwards to the Ruacana Falls, cutting off the water supply to the lake. During the drying period, the bottom of the former inland lake became very brackish, wind erosion deepened the depression and a deposited layer of clay and silt remained, up to 240m thick in places.
The park's great animal wealth includes well over a hundred species of mammals, including elephants, lions, cheetahs, leopards, black rhinos, blue wildebeests, giraffes, plains zebras and the rare black-nosed impala, the Damara dik-dik (pygmy green antelope) and 340 different bird species. The western part of Etosha National Park is also home to roan antelope, sable antelope and mountain zebra.
Meals included:
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