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Keetmanshoop Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Keetmanshoop, Namibia
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Those Adorable Meerkats!
This is a top pick! He Said: Yet another long drive (Namibia is a HUGE country!) brought us south to the dusty town of Keetmanshoop. It is a rather quiet place with a large church, a main street, and many boarded-up shops. Actually, it looked almost identical to a lot of ...
More Desert
This is a top pick! We left the canyon for Keetmanshoop and the ancient Quiver Tree forest. These trees are only found in this region and are actually aloe plants. They grow among rocks and acacias, living for many hundreds of years. We didn't stay too long. We wanted to ...
Trees & Rocks
This is a top pick! ... trees in the park were between 200 to 300 years old. Modeling of Aloe dichotoma (scienific name) in South Africa and Namibia has contributed to understanding of protected area needs in response to climate change. Known as Choje to the indigenous San ...
Flowers, Trees, and Desert Landscapes
This is a top pick! ... yellow grass, rocky hills and mountains, cacti, and deep canyons. After stopping for lunch en route we continued up to Keetmanshoop where we had come to see the Quiver Trees…strange succulent plants with tree trunks growing several metres high ...
Second Biggest Canyon
This is a top pick! ... is the second largest canyon in the world and the largest in Africa, as well as the second most visited tourist attraction in Namibia. It features a gigantic ravine, in total about 100 miles long, up to 342 miles wide and in places almost 1,800 feet ...
Crossing the Namibian border
This is a top pick! ... a picnic area where there is a garbage bin, so no paper is left in the nature. We find the Canyon Lodge in Keetmanshoop easy enough. They have 2 computers with internet connection at the reception. Then the room dance starts. We asked for a double bed ...
A dirty great big hole in the ground ...
... landscape made by nature ... That night I pull two park benches together to sleep out under the stars ... Orion protects me as I drift off with dreams of wonders beheld and yet to come ... This is my last night in Namibia ... ...
Cheeky Cheetahs, Quiver Trees & Giants Playground
We arrived late in to the Rest Camp after a long day on the road. There weren't any upgrades available to stay in the "spaceship" accommodation, which is basically white round buildings taken from the railways which have been customised. It ...
Fish River Canyon
We drove across the border into Namibia. The border crossing went extremely smoothly and we were through in no time at all. Not many people use this crossing and only two other people came through in the 30 minutes that we were there. As soon as we ...
Fish River Canyon spectacular
Again drove through sparse grassed plains and visited the quiver tree forest (these are strange trees with aloe like folliage on the top). The bushman used the very light wood to hold their arrows. Some were hundreds of years old. The ...
Sesriem and Fish River Canyons
11 April 2009 - Saturday We woke up at sunrise at the sound of the last calling geckos and early rising birds. We quickly packed up our tent etc, though there wasn't too much to pack up to begin with, and left the camp. Our first stop, Sesriem ...
Hello Namibia!
... some from our reserve tank). Ai-Ais was closed due to renovations so we had to turn around. While trying to decipher Namibia's road numbering, I took us in the wrong direction back towards the border! 60 precious kilometres were lost because of it. ...
Sossusvlei
... . I really sad to be finishing. Said goodbye to our new friends and headed out in the scorching heat. Great dirt road ride again, perhaps feeling a little too confident... Just a few reminders who is boss! Keetmanshoop, oh dear...who lives in these ...
Kalahari
The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is Africa's first cross border park, created in 1999 with the merger of South Africa's Kalahari-Gemsbok and Botswana's Gemsbok Parks. It is a giant park at 37,000 sq km and is made up completely of the semi-desert ...
Air Mattress Flat
... and there were hills and beautiful scenery. I arrived early at the Seeheim Hotel. This hotel was a stop on the railroad from Keetmanshoop to Ludentzbucht. There are photos of the opening of the railway in 1908. An Afrikaans couple now runs the hotel and ...
Namibia day 1
This is a top pick! ... for Africa” map diamond appears to indicate an attraction in the area. There are three attractions on the way to Keetmanshoop. First is the Mesosaurus Fossils. The owner of the farm, Giel Steenkamp, who calls himself - “Giel ...
Desolation Road
This title's for you Des. First day of our road trip round Namibia. A group of four and one vehicle had turned into a group of nine in two. Four Brits, one American, two Finns and two Israelis set off south through stunning countryside. Descending ...
Birthday!!!
... In the morning we headed off to Luderitz pennisular for a drive and to spot more seals and penguins before heading to Keetmanshoop, where we got some supplies and headed to Quiver tree forest camp (Quiver trees are the national emblem of Namibia and ...
Namibia Road Trip - Day 4
DAY 4 AI-AIS TO QUIVER TREE FOREST We did a quick drive up to the Quiver Tree Forest, just north of Keetmanshoop. We stayed in the pools at the Ai-Ais resort a bit too long and ended up making it to the quiver tree forest a just in time for ...
Namibia
After a painless 2 hour flight, Gord rolled into Namibia. It's a vast country, and home to much of the worlds coffee table book photographic scenery (the most famous example being the sand dunes at Sossuvelei). In order to reduce logistic hassles, I ...
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