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Grootfontein Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Grootfontein, Namibia
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A Sweet Story
This is a top pick! ... of them were either thought provoking or very humourous. This one, I will cherish. It seems that in a village in Namibia, like many villages in Africa, a group of women would trek close to 20 km a day back and ...
Halloween in Namibia
This is a top pick! ... of petrol. A clever way I find: people who drive lots will pay more than the ones who don’t use their vehicle much. Grootfontein is also known for hosting the largest metal meteorite in the world... 3m X 1m roughly...but heavy!! If you talk loudly ...
Jacko Comes to Town: Part Deux
The next day I recovered my iPod about 20 feet from our campsite. My earphones were chewed up but the iPod was still working. Unfortunately as I write this letter the iPod is no longer working. Mr. Jack bit into it really hard and now ...
Oct 13, 2011
Oba! Chegamos ao meteorito Hoba!!!
... 'Sul. Para saber mais sobre o Projeto 20°12', visite a página inicial sobre este blog. Seguimos de Rundu a Grootfontein onde abastecemos o carro e um frentista ouvindo nossa conversa, veio falar com a gente em português! Uma surpresa para nós. ...
Caprivi Strip
... an area fought over between Namibia, Botswana and Zambia but now safe to travel through. Heading west we arrived at the town of Grootfontein and arrived at the nearby camp 12kms out at Roy’s camp. the day was stinking hot and we enjoyed a dip in ...
Delta Dawn
From the city of Maun, we made our way on dugout wooden canoes - called mokoros - into the Okavango River Delta. This is one place in the world where a major river deltas not into another body of water but instead into a desert where it is absorbed by ...
Day 181 - Namibia, Near Border - Game Viewing
... . Pleased not to be stuck on cook group prepping lunch! Back on the truck at 2 where we drove to the town of Grootfontein for cook group shopping and beer/biltong restock for beer club. Boys find tacos so looking forward to them cooking. Then drove till ...
Maltahohe
... us up to a peak with nice views, and the camp staff was really friendly and had some great stories about growing up in Namibia. One of the camp's guides told us that he was studying scorpions and collected them each night using a UV light. He said that ...
Namibie
La Namibie n'était pas au programme. Mais tellement de personnes l'ont recommandée que c'est devenu une part importante du voyage. Et avec raison. Des dunes de Sossusvlei au parc d'Etosha en passant par Swakopmund et la cote du squelette, c'est une ...
San People in the Bushmanland
We are now in Grootfontein, which is a fairly modern town with internet cafes and coffee shops! I'm on cook duty today so that means I have to go shopping with our cook Charlie and the rest of my cook group shortly! We have stayed two nights in ...
Jacko Comes to Town
From Jo'burg I arrived in Windhoek, Namibia. I took a three day safari to Sossusvlei to see the sand dunes. Here is what happened. As we left the end of the city center where tar meets gravel road, a sign reads "The end of ...
Bush man visit
... leopard is known to hang out at. Unfortunately it was nowhere to me seen so we headed out of Etosha and towards Grootfontein for a supplies stop. Wandering the street of this town we saw several ladies wearing the traditional African dress. We then drove ...
Martian Land
Up until now my time in Namibia has been amazing but one of the main reasons that I came to Namibia was to view the amazing Dune scape at Sossusvlei. This part of the Namib desert contains miles and miles of huge spectacular looking red dunes, ...
Small town Namibia
This is a top pick! ... 12km from the campsite, so after a final look at some giraffe and springbok, we were soon on the main highway heading to Grootfontein. The travel time for the day was estimated to be six hours so we were very surprised when just after two hours later we ...
Zebras in the campsite
We got to our campsite in the late afternoon and relaxed after a long day on the truck around the pool. The campsite pool was complete with a bathtub waterfall which we found particularly classy. We planned on going for a swim, but that activity was cut ...
Grootfontein
This is a top pick! We left Etosha after a morning drive. The journey to Grootfontein is around 400 km, although on a B "road" i.e.: Good tar road.The road climbs to just over 1400 m and the countryside becomes a bit different with a few mountains around and a variety of ...
Duwisib Castle
This is a top pick! We left Luderitz with Anita wanting to stay behind. She was over the moon with the place. The only dissappointment was Kolmanskop. We had a complete different picture drawn up by all the advertising. There are just a few houses and although there is ...
Fluffy Balls
... of Lubricants. The only comical thing I saw here was a car that looked like it was made of papier maché. Stopping in Grootfontein for shopping I realised we'd been starved of Western style shops for so long that we now judged the quality of a place by ...
Supermarkets Africa Style and hippo neighbours
... bacon & eggs. The traditional/ stable diet of Namibian people is maize based and we have seen in more at the eastern part of Namibia where the people are poorer. They grow the maize and pummel it and the send it to the mill to get milled. I guess ...
Post Trip Info
TIP: Bring enough money to buy some of the local wears from the shop in the village. You can buy shields, spears, musical instruments (ask to hear one of the Bushmen to play one, it's a really interesting sound!), jewellery, etc. You can also ask to have ...
Best Accomodations Yet
March 18 Grootfontein. Traveled 100 kilometers south, out of our way, just to find a center with Internet, and then was unable to connect with my computer. We did find a beautiful lodge 8 kilometers out of town. Took the Deluxe Suite, at the ...
Duisiweb Castle NWR Site
Duwisib Castle 16th July 2009 We hadn't been sure whether to stay another night at Namtib or move onto the NWR site as Duwisib where we had prebooked and paid in advance. The decision was made that we would go to Duwisib. From Namtib we had to continue ...
The ancient San Bushman tribe
Thursday 4th November 2010 This morning we had a 5.30am breakfast and went early to our tour of the San Bushman village. Our guide Peter collected us wearing nothing but a loin cloth, all tucked in around his bits and a g string type back. It's all ...
Grootfontein
... these parts)!! Alan kills 2/3 birds with one windscreen! Road turns out to be ok Enter country no. 8 – Namibia (Arsy customs bloke!) Arrive Grootfontein 5:30pm (in a thunderstorm) La La Panzi is the name of this lodge. Very strange place – ...
Desert Dunes
We left Swapkomund and headed South to the Namib-Naukfult National Park which is in Southern Nambia. Nambia has a land area four times that of the UK, but only has a population of 1.7m, so we spend long chunks of time without seeing anyone whatsoever. ...
Giant Baobab Tree
After a bumpy ride we crossed the border into Namibia. It was one of the friendliest border crosses ever! We then stopped in a local town to do our cook group shopping. Our first stop was the bank to change our money. It took us a ridiculous 35 minutes to ...
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