Onguma – Rundu

After a hearty breakfast we continued to Rundu. Once again on tarred roads. Here you can see a bit more trees and bushes. In Grootfontein there was a big construction site, so we took our break a bit further along the road. Palm trees and huge termite mounds, which partly look like sculptures are on the left and right of the road.

Shortly before Rundu there are many small villages, where people live partly in round mud huts with thatched roofs, in the simplest conditions. Many people (including children) were on the road with containers to get water. There were some stalls on the side of the road. We bought two small carved elephants. In Rundu we refueled the car – 102 liters/1444,50 N$. Then we did some shopping and drove over a 7 km long sand road to Kaisosi River Lodge, our campsite today. Here one looks directly on the Okavango – river. For dinner we had vegetable allsorts with cheese sauce.

Silke

Halali – Onguma Tamboti Camp

After a short night we went to the Halali waterhole “Moringa” again this morning. It was not as spectacular as last night. “Only” a Marabou stork, a Kudu, ducks and guinea fowl. We then continued through Etosha National Park to Camp Namutoni a former German fort. There many zebra mongooses made the area unsafe. Totally cute!

Herds of zebras, blue wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, warthogs, springboks and the big bird “giant bustard” were spotted.

At the Kalkheuwel waterhole (artificial), zebras literally jostled for the best spot with springboks and warthogs. Out to the eastern Lindquist Gate we turned immediately left into Onguma Tamboti Camp. Here we have a new “campsite” today. In the evening we went for dinner. The restaurant offers a view of an in-house waterhole. A few giraffes, antelopes and ducks did the honors. I had a pizza and Reiner an oryx steak..

Silke