The good stuff, Etosha National Park
Monday, August 7th, 2006Now, even though I knew that the Game parks were going to be very touristy, they were still awe inspiring. You are basically in a huge cage that is hundreds of square miles big. At the perimeter it is fenced, but it takes a lot of driving to get to the ends. Withing the park are three camps that are the only places in which to stay. Since there is no driving at night for your and animals protection, you had to be in the encampments before sun down. To keep the tourists occupied, each of the three camps had a waterhole attached that was just outside the camps fences. They set up a lighting system and viewing platform so you could go there at night and view all the nocturnal activities. Pretty interesting. I did laugh when you think about how we are kept inside the smallest cage and the animals walk around on the outside free to come and go all the while looking at the tourists in the cage.
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