Etosha Lookout
The only place in the park where you can drive your car out onto the salt pan. Stretching in all directions is a vast white salt crust, and mirages often appear on the horizon.
The lookout lies north of Halali Camp. A dirt road runs several kilometres out into the salt pan and ends at a circular parking area with signs. From here, you are surrounded on all sides by flat white salt crust. It gives you a direct sense of the scale of the 4,800-square-kilometre salt pan. Mirages often appear in the midday heat, and occasionally an ostrich or springbok walks by. The park rules allow you to get out of the car to take photos only at this spot. In the rainy season the salt pan fills with water, and flamingos may appear. It is best to visit in the morning or before sunset, and bring sunglasses and sunscreen.
Opening hours
Grounds open from sunrise to sunset
Nearby sights
- Halali Camp & Moringa Waterhole
- Etosha National Park
- Chudob Waterhole
- Fort Namutoni
- Olifantsbad Waterhole
- Klein Namutoni Waterhole
- Dik-Dik Drive
- Fischer's Pan