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Namibia – The Final Goodbye, Etosha National Park

A Last Experience to Etosha National Park - Namibia, By Joydeep Chandra

by Discover Africa
April 7, 2021
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An Etosha National Park Goodbye Experience

It has been close to 40 days since I left Namibia and finally I could muster enough coherence to pen a few lines for Etosha National Park, Namibia, in all my limited literary capacity. We met for the first time 04 years 3 months and 15 days back on the very first day of my maiden African trip. It was supposed to be the first and last time we met. It was supposed to be the last time I visit Namibia.

 

 

It was also supposed to be a fleeting glimpse of your ethereal beauty. But won’t life be very boring if everything happened as “it was supposed to be”? Hence providence sprung a pleasant surprise and fate brought me back to my dreamland a year later on a 2-year assignment which would ultimately extend to 27 months. After all, it’s for nothing that Paul Coelho said “When you really want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it”.

 

Hence “our” love at first sight translated into a romantic sojourn lasting over 04 years, 08 trips, and 22 nights. 22 days of pure bliss it was and 22 nights of nature’s lullabies. But that’s another story, the present one is about my very last visit and how she bade me goodbye. Also how I knew it was not a one-sided romance.

In a world ravaged by a pandemic, travel is uncertain at best.

 

 

So my return from Namibia was not only doubtful but fraught with extreme disquietude. Cancellation of flights, suspension of routes, requirement of negative test report were just a few of the precarious predicaments casting a spell of fickleness on my return plans. Further, the fact that my stay had already been extended once before also weighed in.

 

However, beyond all these uncertainties, Etosha gave me a farewell like no other and also signaled the end of my Namibian sojourn 20 days before I actually left. Just like my very first evening in the park 4 yrs back, I was gifted with the rarest of Etosha’s gifts on my very last evening, a sighting of a beautiful leopard at Goas.

All regulars at the park would vouch that leopard sightings are the most special and rare at the park. This was only the second time I was seeing one in 04 years. Incidentally, my Etosha leopard sightings have happened only on my very first and last day at the park over a gap of 4 years.

 

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A Leopard Sighting in Etosha National Park – Photo By Joydeep Chandra

Hence I took this as my farewell gift from Etosha, a way for her to bid goodbye obviously not to mention that I got some of my best leopard photos in those 30 secs. Who says nature does not speak back it does to people who know how to hear her. That was not all, I was presented with another leopard sighting an hour later at Rietfontein, my second in a day, Etosha was indeed returning my love and I could not be happier.

My visit ended with a few more unique events and Etosha went all out to make my final goodbye a memorable one. Lions walking on the road at midday to give me unobstructed head-on shots, huge elephant herd accompanying me till the Okaukuejo gate were not just special sightings but an unspoken adieu. Our silent exchanges caused the loudest elation of gratitude in my heart.

 

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Lion Sightings in Etosha National Park – Photo by Joydeep Chandra
Last but not the least, as the saying goes you may leave Africa but Africa never leaves you. So every time I think about Etosha my Garmin watch tells me that my heart does skip a bit. Also not to forget the fact that as part of my job assignment I was involved in keeping the park safe from poachers so maybe when the last rhino left Okaukuejo after having his fill at midnight, he did blink an eye at me to say thank you. Or it was my imagination as I stood alone beneath the starry skies one last time.

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