Back in Namibia - Etosha National Park

One of life's natural campers, Annette struggles bravely to cope with the room upgrade at N'Kwazi.

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One of the biggest challenges of overlanding is not the camping, the rain, the people at the side of the road trying to sell you stuff or getting the runs (although that's particularly dire here), it's keeping track of what day it is and where you are.

Honourable mention therefore goes to the N'Kwazi Lodge Camp Site somewhere in Namibia which gave us probably the best room upgrade of the trip for the bargain price of 20 gbp. Look it up in Lonely Planet, and if you are in the area, go there.

By Thursday, 20th January, we'd arived at Etosha National Park. One of Namibia's biggest national parks and full of the usual stuff - rain, mud and animals.

We stayed in the park for two nights at different places, the first at Namutoni and the second at Okaukuejo. The second is the better of the two but staff there may still be traumatised. I was caught out in the rain whilst by the pool and ended up walking back through the site, past the bar and the restaurant as well as all the poshest accommodation in the pouring rain in just my speedos. Not a pretty sight at the best of times and frankly pathetic when cold and dripping wet.

Cute cat.

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If it hadn't been for the covered kitchen area as shelter and then the superb restaurant in the evening, it would have been a pretty miserable evening. As it was, it turned out to be a cracker.