We had actually planned to set off early into Mahango National Park after a quick breakfast to observe the animals that are more active in the morning. This also fit in with the announcement that we would receive a breakfast package to our self-catering cabins. However, this breakfast package turned out to be a full breakfast with home-made bread, boiled eggs, sausage & cheese, vegetables and sweet alternatives. So it turned out to be a big breakfast and we didn't leave until around 8:30 a.m.

The Mahango NP is part of the Bwabwata NP and is home to elephants, lions, leopards, hippos and the usual other species of the area. At the park entrance we pay the fee of NAD 90 per car with 2 adults and set off on the 15 km long journey along the Okavango.

At first it seems quiet and we only spot a few impalas and a family of ostriches with their chicks. Later, however, we get closer to the Okavango and there is a wide range of game: hartebeest, lechwe antelopes, kudus, giraffes, warthogs, zebras, elephants and hippos. We are also lucky enough to see 2 eagles and observe many other colorful birds.

So we wander around the park for a few hours and enjoy the animal sightings. On the way back to the lodge we stop in Divundu and try in vain to get some cash. The ATMs either have no power, have already been dismantled due to malfunctions, or cannot get an internet connection. Well, we have to improvise and buy some food and drinks for this evening in the local supermarket (please don't compare it to our markets). Alex will give us meat (kudu fillet and boereworst) to grill.

Mahango National Park from Joerg on Video.

So in the evening we have 2 large kudu fillets and 2 coarse boereworst (spicy sausages) for the grill and Alex brings us fresh salad and lemons that have just been picked from the tree. Together with tomatoes, rolls and crackers it is a great dinner, which we celebrate with a Tafel Lager beer as a sundowner while the wood is lit.

Tomorrow we will leave this little paradise in the direction of Rundu, where the Caprivi Strip, now the Zambezi region, begins or ends for us. Here we will reach the mainland of Namibia and have to set our clocks back an hour. The reason for the different times is the Zambezi's refusal to participate in Namibia's winter and summer time change. So we will experience Namibia's winter time for 2 days before it is changed back to summer time on September 3rd.