TOSHA NATIONAL PARK :
Etosha is Namibia 's premier reserve for wildlife and one of the best and largest (8600 square miles) reserves in Africa . Mixed scrub, mopane savannah and dry woodland surround the huge Etosha Pan, a silvery white depression, dry except during the rainy season. Etosha has a huge elephant population. Lion, cheetah and rhino are often sighted. Adjacent to the park is Ongava Private Game Reserve.
NAMIB-NAUKLUFT NATIONAL PARK :
This scenic park covers 19,215 square miles of desert, savannah grassland, gypsum and quartz plains, and granite mountains. There is an estuarine lagoon and a canyon, and huge drifting apricot-colored sand dunes exceeding 1000 feet in height at Sossusvlei.
SKELETON COAST NATIONAL PARK :
Skeletons of shipwrecks and whales dot the treacherous coastline of this park, covering more than 2000 square miles of wind- swept dunes, canyons and jagged peaks of the Namibia Desert . Swakopmund is a good base from which to explore the coastline.
DAMARALAND/KAOKOLAND:
Located inland east of the Skeleton Coast, this is an arid mountainous region of spectacular rugged scenery that is home to the desert elephant and black rhino, Hartmann's mountain zebra, desert-dwelling giraffe, lion, various antelope and other species
.
Best Time to Go
Excellent: Jun-Oct
Good: Apr, May, Nov
Fair: Dec-Mar
Back
