The local Ovambo name - Etosha - means 'huge white area' or 'place of dry water', which describes the vast shallow salt pan that is dry and cracked for most of the year. Hazy mirages distort your eyesight and make you see things that are not really there.
Waterberg Plateau Park, Namibia
Out of a flat scrubland rises a 200m (600ft) gigantic orange rock with sheer sides and a flat top. This natural edifice glowing gold in late afternoon sun is the astonishing Waterberg Plateau in Namibia. It is a lost Eden with wild game roaming the lush tableland.
