Etosha National Park, Namibia's premier wildlife park and tourism hot spot, celebrates its centenary on March 22nd 2007. 'Chums' as the original inhabitants, the Heikum San, call it, mesmerizes and hypnotizes the human spirit through its massive waterless saline pan, formed, according to local lore, when the tears of a Heikum mother, who lost her child, evaporated.