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Omaruru
Travel Blogs from Omaruru, Namibia
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Bush camps and inept guides
This is a top pick! ... in the truck and our first stop was in the town of Kamanjab for a little shopping. This seemed more like how the real Namibia should be, dusty and run down. The Herero women here still wore these huge, often colourful, Victorian dresses and headgear from ...
Desert trekking
This is a top pick! He Said: Another long dusty drive over miles of dirt roads brought us south into the fringes of the Namib Desert to the peak of Spitzkoppe. The landscape here is incredible. Spitzkoppe is a huge set of enormous granite rocks poking up from a huge flat ...
Dans le Damaraland
Réveil sous un brouillard bien que nous nous soyons éloignés du bord de mer. Heureusement cela ne dure pas, et en 3h, on passe de 0 à 40 degrés. On suit une piste dans le désert,qui serpente dans un cratère de 20 km de diamètre, peut être ...
Desert Elephants and Hikes
Our second camp was truly a camp as we stayed in "tents," which are more like wood floors, full bathrooms, with a tent over it. The focus of this camp was seeing the "smaller" desert elephant which roams around the area, and boy did we see ...
Cheetah Park
May 9th: Today we broke camp from Spitzkoppe and headed for Cheetah park. We arrived shortly after lunch and had the early afternoon time to enjoy the pool after pitching camp. At 1530 we met the guy who runs the camp and was taken to the house to ...
On to Spitzkoppe
After a morning of shopping, email etc., we left Swakopmund after lunch for the comparitively short journey to Spitzkoppe - 165km. Spitzkoppe is sometimes called 'Africa's Matterhorn' and it's one of a few mountains that just stick up out of the huge ...
The Matterhorn of Africa
March 7th - Etosha to Spitzkoppe We had heard the roads in western Namibia had been washed out so it was with some trepidation that we set off today. We were due to bush camp next to Spitzkoppe (a spectacular mountain with ancient rock paintings) but ...
Walking with Cheetahs
Hello!! We left Etosha N.P. early on Wednesday (9/13) and headed towards our next destination of Cheetah Park. We arrived in the town of Outja for lunch and to do a bit of cook group shopping for the next few days. In the early afternoon we arrived ...
The Trans Kalahari Highway
... but it was great to share time on my first visit ... albeit from a discreet distance and from behind a bamboo screen. Really Namibia was packed with highlights - on a daily basis. We drove from Swakopmund back to Windhoek along the Trans-Kalahari ...
This is class
After the adventures of Etosha we headed further south. Namibia is an amazing country. It is reminiscent of the southwest U.S. and yet it is its own. It is Africa. The normally dry salt pans of Etosha give way into a sandy landscape. In the middle ...
Leopard Alley, Right Next to Snake Rock
In Spitzkoppe we stayed in a remote camping site under the granite mountains of Namibia. Unlike many of our previous camps, we had no end to the amount of room we had. Most of us clustered together for safety, but Elena, seeking a little privacy set her ...
Peintures rupestres et chasse à l'éléphant
On poursuit notre route cahin-cahan le long des pistes et dans le lit de la rivière Huab. C'est au bord de cette rivière à sec que nous avons vu notre premier éléphant !! Rapidement, nous arrivons au camp, où nous pouvons prendre des douches de ...
Northern Namibia
Our first day in Nambia was a drive day, to a bushcamp, where a competitive game of French cricket took place before dinner and the obligatory early night. The following morning we started the long drive to the San Bushmen tribe, where we were to ...
Godhirde
8th January - Brandberg White Lady Camp, Damaraland, Namibia, 21.0184S 14.6861E Alt 477m Meeting Godhirdine Keywords - Ancient paintings, Martian Landscapes, Pregnant dolls, Hike into Brandbergs, Godhirdine Garoes, Clicking language, Upgrade. The ...
We will rock you
From the cheetah park we headed to a strange place in the middle of nowhere called Spitzkopje. There were many interesting rock formations that reminded me of Uluru in Australia. There I saw some cave art, met a chameleon and climbed up a rock, from ...
Spitzkopf and Brendburg
After the heads had cleared from Swakop we visited the Snake Park to have a look at all the creatures that could cause us grief on our travels. Eddie wasn't too keen to get in amongst the snakes and scorpions and refused point blank to hold the harmless ...
Spitzkoppe
On the way to Spitzkoppe we stopped at a small marked with traditional African hand craft mad by the Himba tribe. The Himba people traditionally cover their bodies in red mud from top to toe. The females with their babies was selling some beautiful ...
Day 176 - Namibia, Spitzkoppe Rocks - Needle Grass
... vistas, boulders, escarpments, grasses and walking trails. I had never heard of it before but it is apparently one of Namibia's most recognisable landmarks. After a bite to eat most of the group headed out for walks amongst the golden grasses and over ...
Campsite at Spitzkoppe
I think this has to be my favourite place of the trip. We arrived yesterday afternoon and watched the sun set over the rocks. Rosey and I were up at 6am this morning and climbed up to a shoulder on the rocks to watch the sun come up. ...
Stinking seals and Lion King Land
Good Morning, We drove up the beginning Skeleton Coast road which even at the edge here has no life and no people its pretty remote, but the road here is good and we were driving up to the Cape Cross Seal colony. In 1486 Portuguese Diego Cáo landed ...
There's a meercat in my shower & thats a lady man
... about 30 foot long and thousands of years old. All had fallen and been carried on a glacier during the last ice age to Namibia. They basically look like wood, but feel like stone. As interesting as the trees are to geologists and ceramists alike with all ...
A bit of art history
We've been exploring a bit more of the Namib desert, this time the Savannah part. This area, around the mountains of Spitzkoppe and Brandberg, was home to the San Bushman 30000 years ago until they were pushed out by other tribes about 1000 years ...
Day 14: Spitzkoppe
... several makeshift stalls litter the side of the road, selling all sorts of semi-precious crystals and rocks from different areas of Namibia. It is a good pastime to stop, and browse through them while waiting for somebody to run across the fields and give ...
Detour in Namibia - The ongoing Bundi adventure
Well, on an overland trip, you never know what is going to happen. It has been unseasonably wet and with it, the rivers overflow and make a mess of the local roads. We ended up taking a few detours when we couldn't cross the road and then ended up ...
The Rocky Road
We left the bush camp early and headed down the Skeleton coast to Spitzkoppe. We were back along the crashing Atlantic Ocean and we stopped for a middday swim. It was great to be back in a 'proper' ocean, one so cold that you don't want to ...
Sleeping among the Cheetah
... farm. The laws in Nambia are that if cats are in captivity they need to be desexed. There are only approx 2,500 left in Namibia today. The owners of the property that we are visiting are trying to raise funds for a fence that will be large enough to fall ...
Beth's second home....Uis
... nbsp; Beth's old friend Terry was working at the visitors center. The visitors center has grown and the country of Namibia has declared it a protected Heritage Site. Through him we were able to connect with more of Beth's students. Monday ...
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