Spent the night here in Waterberg - this was the site of a famous battle in 1904.
Germans versus the Herero people - the Germans overwhelmed them fairly easily with light causalities all round but just to be sure the Germans chased the retreating Hereros into the desert and after 4 weeks most had succumbed to exhaustion and hunger. Around 65,000 people were wiped out and the Herero people were decimated. They say that there should be 1.8M Herero now - but the population is only a tenth of that
Waterberg camp is lovely - we got there in time for a game drive up onto the plateau. Didn’t see an awful lot of animals though - just Cape buffalo and giraffes - everyone else was hiding.
This is the plateau
So we went up in this
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