This post’s photo was not taken in a national park, nor on a “game drive”.
In northwestern Namibia – in fact, just about anywhere in Namibia – an interesting wildlife encounter is never a certainty, but is almost always a less-than-remote possibility.
We spent most of 12 November 2022 on route C43, making our way south-ish from Epupa Falls (on the border with Angola) to a late lunch in Upowo, followed by a splendidly rugged, mountainous section, then down onto quasi-flattish road running through open savannah/grassland, punctuated by mountains.
Circa nine hours after leaving Epupa Falls we arrived at Khowarib – a spectacular place which will have its own multi-image post before 2023 is very old.
Appropriately, this family group of mountain zebras were in the “splendidly rugged” section, on slopes above/beside the very steep Joubert Pass.
(photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 3.28 pm on 12 November 2022. On our way through these particular mountains we saw a “single figure” number of striped quadrupeds, but “visible zebras” comfortably exceeded “other vehicles encountered”)
You may or not be surprised to know that Namibia is both more mountainous and very much more elevated than is Australia; at 1,080 metres above sea level, Namibia’s average altitude is more than three times Australia’s.