Etosha’s Best Waterholes for Game Viewing
In Etosha the wildlife comes to the water — so knowing which waterholes to sit at, and when, is the whole game. Here are the ones worth your patience.
In Etosha the wildlife comes to the water — so knowing which waterholes to sit at, and when, is the whole game. Here are the ones worth your patience.
Three days is ideal for a first Etosha trip. This waterhole-to-waterhole plan moves you west to east through the park's three main camps.
Etosha is one of Africa's great self-drive parks. Here is everything you need — gates, roads, waterhole tactics and etiquette — to do it well.
Official figures revealed that black rhino killings in Etosha National Park quadrupled in the first quarter of 2024, prompting an urgent conservation response in the park that holds the world's largest free-ranging black rhino population.
To outpace poachers, Namibia has turned to large-scale dehorning of Etosha's rhinos, a controversial but increasingly central tool in protecting the world's largest free-ranging black rhino population.
As one of Namibia's worst droughts in decades gripped the country in 2024, park authorities worked to maintain Etosha's network of artificial waterholes and keep its wildlife alive through a punishing dry season.