Onguma to Okonjima

22-23 april

Tuesday was mostly a driving day from Onguma to our last lodge, Okonjima, on the large preserve of the Africat Foundation. We stopped at a very deep sinkhole, into which the retreating Germans in WWI threw a lot of their equipment and ammunition as they fled.

The depth of the lake is not known, but Google Earth reportedly shows its waters connecting underground with another lake many miles away.

We had an excellent lunch at a crocodile farm, where we enjoyed crocodile pizza but did not visit the farm itself.

The entry to the preserve (seen here through the vehicle’s windshield) illustrates an animal new to me, namely the perforated cheetah:

On Wednesday we went out in the open vehicle with an Okonjima guide,who managed after over two hours to find a collared male leopard. He was very calm despite our circling around him in the vehicle a few times.

And there you have two exciting weeks. Advice: never complain about road surfaces; they can be a lot worse! (But worth it.)