Day Twenty One Tsumeb to Popa Falls





Enjoying a couple of cold ones




Relaxing before our braai at Kupfe Quella

 We left The Kupfe Quelle Resort enroute Grootfontein. We no sooner left when we saw a sign Hoba Meteorite so we took the turn and arrived at small  building, we paid a fee and went to a site where this massive iron structure was embedded in the ground.
 

Des standing next to a mass of iron (The Hoba meteorite)


It was all paved around it and the structure itself was clean solid metal.  After observing and reading about it we continued to Grootfontein where we again stocked up. We then went to Rundu and then on to the Popa Fall where we would spend the night.

The Popa Falls

The campsite very quiet and secluded with the falls not much more than rapids.

Day Twenty Etosha to Tsumeb

This morning we hooked the camper again and went back into the park to exit on the other side at the Namutoni gate. We followed the main route through the park seeing animals at all the waterholes.



A Kudu bull after a drink




A bit of greenery at the Namutoni gate

 

 We stopped at the lookout point overlooking the pans, the pans were bone dry but it is just incredable to see the exspanse of the pan.

The dry Etosha pans at a lookout point

We eventually arrived at the Namutoni gate and made our way to Tsumb where we took a camp site a the Kupfe Quella resort. We then decided instead of taking the main route back to Windhoek  home we would  continue through the Caprivi to the Katima Malilo and then back home through Botswana.

Day Nineteen A day in the park

We left early and entered the park just after the gate opened. We came accross the same lions again just a little further from where we saw them the previous day.


The mating game begins



A rare sight

At one of the waterholes we noticed all the game very much on the alert. We then noticed a leopard  under a solar panel

A leopard lying under a solar panel at a waterhole

We hung around, but he did not interested in anything, so we moved on. We then came across more lions, which had obviously done a kill as they were all feeding on which looked like a zebra..

A giraffe taking a drink


 


A herd of buck on the side of the road


We drove down rhino drive all the way to the Halali camp in the hope of seeing a rhino, and then made our way back to the gate.

Day Eighteen arrived at Etosha

Etosha Safari Campsite out side of the park

We left early heading for Etosha. We decided we were not going to stay in the park but rather take a private campsite close to the gate. So we arrived just before 10 am and took a site at the Etosha Safari camp which was about 10 kilometres from Andersons gate.


Andersons entrance gate into Etosha



 We unhooked the camper and left for Okaukuejo where we did the necessary paper work and went into the park. We first did a drive on the west side and turned at Leeubron seeing pleny animals.


A small herd of Gemsbok on the move

A lone Zebra crossing the road

  In the afternoon we went east and did a short around Nebroni where we came accross a couple of lions. We then made our way back to camp as we had to be out of the gate by 6pm.


Animals around a water hole

A male lion and lioness



Day Seventeen A trip to Winhoek



The Entrance to Gross Barmen Hot Springs

 We left Gross Barmen at about 9.30 for Walvis Bay where we were going to stock up again as we were now planning to go into Etosha. After doing all the necessary we left Windhoek and headed back  to Okohandja and then on to Otjiwarongo.

The garden town Okohandja

Our next stop was at Outjo were we found a nice campsite at Ombinda Lodge which would probably be our last stayover before we reach Etosha.

Our pleasant grassed, shady campsite, Ombinda  Lodge

Day Sixteen Walvis Bay to Gross Barmen

A very misty Swakopmund

We left a very misty Walvis Bay at about 10am and made our way to Swakopmund where the mist was also very dense. We did the sightseeing that we could but eventually departed at 2pm as the mist was still very dense.

By midday the fog had not yet cleared up

 We travelled through Usakos and then onto Okahandja and arrived at Gross Barmen hot springs where we spent the night

Day Fifteen a day in Walvis Bay

We got up early and unpacked the trailer and found an engineering shop who was prepared to do the repair for us immediately.
 We then hired a chalet and we spent the morning washing all the equipement and the clothes that needed to be washed.

Birds a plenty feeding on mud banks of the laggon

Later we took a ride through Walvis Bay doing a bit of sight seeing and then took a ride along the salt pans.
 



The Jugermaster restuarant on the lagoon

Later the afternoon the trailer had been repaired so we went to fetch it a repacked it. We were booked in for the night so we took the oppertunity to make us a cooked meal.