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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andy Hurley" data-source="post: 3212810" data-attributes="member: 86867">Thanks Martin,I was in Namibia in June 2013 and covered the Orange River to Etosha, including the east coast, Luderitz and Walvis Bay/Swakopmund. We didn't have enough time to do the Caprivi area, so this time we are heading north. We spend a  night in Rostock (Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge), where we'll hopefully see the Merkats which we didn't see last time. After that we head to Swakopmund (Villa Margherita) for 2 nights on the coast before Etosha via Erongo (Hohenstein Lodge) and the Waterberg (Hamakari Guest Farm). After that it's the Caprivi strip (Hakusembe River Lodge, Ndhovu Safari Lodge, Camp Kwando) before Botwsana, Chobe (Kubu lodge) and finally on to the Victoria Falls (Victoria Falls Hotel). We stopped of at the Avis Dam on our way to the airport last time and I'm very glad we did. It's a great place to visit and we added 12 species to our list for the trip. There is a restuarant/pub looking over the dam and some ponds where we ate our last meal before heading to the airport also picking up Lilac-breasted Roller and Hamerkop from where we sat outside. A great finish to our holiday. We'll have to see if we've got time to see Daan Viljoen, but it will probably be a bit tight to squeeze it in. We saw plenty of animals last time, but no elephant family groups, only solitary bulls. Also because we were not on any rivers we missed out on hippos, buffalo etc so that is something to look forward to.I worked out that there are 462 possible bird species and 296 lifers, including pelagics, (11 species that we are unlikely to see) so I hope to get good haul and boost my life and year list in the process.</blockquote>

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