Etosha is a place of extremes ... with temperatures rising noticeably after the advent of spring, in September. The mopane trees are bare of leaves, offering no shade from the blinding heat ...

The police beat me with the mopane tree stick and kicked me while I was ... entrusted with the protection of our wildlife in Etosha National Park, comprising of the Ministry of Environment and ...

writes Vanessa Stephen Etosha. It's such an exotic word. It's the sound of an elephant's trunk moving through water, a dry breeze through mopane leaves, rain falling on parched earth, ostriches ...