18thDecember
John
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Africa

Etosha, Namibia

Etosha National Park offers excellent game viewing with the many waterholes attracting endangered black rhinoceros, zebra, lion, elephant, large numbers of antelope and many other species Etosha, meaning ‘place of dry water’, is encloses a huge, flat calcrete depression (or pan) of about 5 000km². The ‘Pan’ provides a great, parched, silver-white backdrop of shimmering mirages to an area of semi-arid savannah grassland and thorn scrub. The pan itself contains water only after very good rains and sometimes for only a few days …

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18thDecember
John
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Africa

Chobe, Botswanna

Chobe in Botswana has one of the largest concentrations of game in the whole of the African continent. It is also one the world’s largest remaining wilderness areas and offers the most diverse array of wildlife out of all of Botswana’s national parks. By size, it is the third largest park of the country, after the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Gemsbok National Park. It is also the country’s first national park. We spent most of our few days in Chobe along and on the Chobe River which …

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17thDecember
John
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Africa

Walvis Bay, Namibia

Near the popular seaside resort town of Swakopmund, Walvis Bay is good spot to visit to  see the Pelicans and Seals which perform for visitors. Swakopmundwas founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South-West Africa, and a sizable part of its population is still German-speaking today  and is an example of German colonial architecture. After German South-West Africa was taken over by the Union of South Africa in 1915, all harbour activities were transferred from Swakopmund to Walvis Bay which was originally a British port

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16thDecember
John
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Africa

Africa 2008, Sossusvlei

Namibia offers stunning landscapes as well as the abundant wildlife and in particular the Sand Dunes of Sossusvlei and the dead forest of Deadvlei are a landscape photographers dream. The early morning starts to catch the perfect light are well worth the effort and it also means that one can avoid the heat of the sun from mid morning to mid afternoon. The late afternoon/evening  light is just perfect also. The dunes of the Namib desert (the oldest desert in the world) …

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06thNovember
John
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Aerials

Ballooning on the Mara

We did two balloon flights while in the  Mara. The first flight was on the Eastern side of the park and was in the company of another balloon and then the other flight was on the Western side of the park with the landing site close to Tanzania’s Serengeti boundary. This a quiet and pleasant way to see the savanna and wildlife without alarming them unduly.

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