After an hour or so we departed for Etosha, which was really the final third of the journey. The Etosha National Park encompasses an area the size of New Jersey, with the primary feature being a pan; a lake that many of the seasonal rivers drain into. Thousands of years ago, the pan was the size of Holland, but it’s much smaller now. The minerals in the water that evaporated away have completely killed the soil, giving the area a scorched earth look; completely devoid of any life at all, except
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