The Etosha National Park is one of the many tourist highlights of Namibia, this sparsely populated country (2.8 million inhabitants on 800,000 square kilometers) offers the visitor. It was not our first visit to this extraordinary park. But no matter how often you’ve been here – it’s always a special experience.

The Etosha National Park also includes the Etosha Pan (a prehistoric lake), which is around 4,800 km2 in size. It is mostly dry and only fills with water when it rains heavily, which attracts than waterfowls and especially flamingos in just a few days. Most of the time, however, the pan is a glistening, empty surface on which hardly any animals get lost. (Etosha means «large, white place» in the language of the locals).

The Etosha National Park extends over an area of almost 23,000 square kilometers and is therefore half the size of Switzerland. When the park was founded in 1907, the area was still around 80,000 km2. But the park was reduced several times until it finally reached its present size.

PS. In times of Covid 19, the number of tourists visiting Namibia has really collapsed. A better time to visit the country and give the locals work and bread is unlikely to come back!