Common duiker

Scrub hare

Someone is curious about the camera traps!

Ongava Tented Camp or OTC is located at the foot of a dolomite hill, and since they are so many rocks ad crevices around, this is a paradise for rock hyraxes or dassies (Procavia capsiens) and dassie rats (Petomus typicusl)

A rock hyrax tuning himself.

At OTC you'll notice that while some dassies have a dark-near black dorsal spot, others have a whitish-yellowish one. This was describe in a scientific paper from 1966 in Journal of Mammalogy. If we believe this paper, the ones with a whitish dorsal spot would be a subspecies known as Kaokoveld rock dassie (Procavia capensis welwitschii) that is endemic to the region. 

Dassie rat showing the typical brushy tail

Here are a few shots of our Ongava's lions...

On a giraffe kill...

What's there?

Golden boy

Not a happy lady

Brother & sister

Between flat plains covered with Cataphractus and Mopane, rolling hills of sharp dolomite rocks, termite mounts of a diversity of colours, stromatolite rocks (one's of the earliest fossils)...

Typical large Mopane tree, termite mount and sharp dolomites rocks in the background.

A closer look at the dolomites...

A maze of dolomite

One of our endemic tree: Commiphora glaucescens or Blue-leaved corkwood.

Blue-leaved corkwood and Euphorbia sp. in the hills.

 Another endemoic: Pachypodium lealii or Bottle tree, blooming in August

Bottle tree flower

And the last endemic for this post: Moringa ovalifolia or Phantomtree

  Sunrise over Andersson's camp waterhole

Stromatolites

Just a beautiful rock