Etosha

The Etosha Pan is a vast dry mud flat that becomes a shallow lake when there's abnormal flooding in the rainy season, about every 10 years. Still waiting for the main rains this year, but we had a spectacular thunderstorm at the Halali campsite two nights ago.
The main attraction is game, wandering through the brush, galloping across the edge of the pan, and especially at waterholes, where fascinating interactions happen. We watched for hours as one species, then another and another would arrive, drink, wallow and leave.  All are extremely wary, watching for predators, spooked by the least movement, yet sometimes bold. For instance, we saw a scrawny lion kill a baby warthog (sad, especially when the parents circled back, squealing their protest but galloping off in the end). But then hundreds of animals just watched the lion eating, frozen in place, and a group of giraffes actually circled the lion, fairly close, just staring at it. The whole scene is often like Noah's ark, each animal taking its turn, and some intermingling like the zebras and wildebeasts. Endlessly watchable, and you're right in the midst of things, just driving around with your windows down, looking for the next scene.
Last note: this morning we saw a Bark Snake bite and kill a chameleon, then swallow it, right in our campsite. Pics later. Yikes, we'll be careful!