We had heard horror stories about the lack of shade in the Etosha camps, so we were pleasantly surprised to find a nice shady spot for our few days at Namutoni.  Once we had settled in, we went off in search of their famous Black-faced Impala. What is amazing about Etosha, is the brilliant white landscape wherever you look.  The trees are so coated with dust from the dry pans that it looks like frost. 

 

 

It was also very hot, with temperatures near to 40C for most of the day.  Even the hyenas preferred to have a dip in the water rather than take advantage of the prey drinking around them.

 

Of course, if there is no water to cool you off, a nice little bedrock shelter will do the trick.  The intense whiteness of the rock made taking good pictures quite a challenge and we often had to shoot with a shutter speed of 650 – 1000 with the ISO as low as we could go.

 

We spent most of each morning checking out the wildlife, spending afternoons in the pool and our evenings at the waterholes.  Not a bad way to spend your time. Dik-Dik Pan was a firm favourite with us and many giraffe and we had a good chuckle at some of their antics.

 

 

Namutoni is an old German fort and with its restaurants etc, you feel like you could be in any European City Square.  Quite nice to hang out.  The campsite however, needs work.  The ablutions are few and far between and are in dire need of renovating. We are not sure where the money of going but its not on fixing the ablutions.  We would love to see this side of the park again, in wetter times, as it is a bird lovers paradise, however, we will probably camp outside.