Etosha National Park

Covering an area of 22 270km², the park was proclaimed as Namibia’s first conservation area in 1907. Consisting of saline desert, savannah and woodlands, the National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. Its definitive feature is the Etosha Pan, a vast, shallow depression of approx. 5000 sq km.

Of the 114 mammal species found in the Park, several are rare and endangered whilst others are endemic to northwestern Namibia and southwestern Angola. About 340 bird species occur in the Park of which a third are migratory.