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How not to organise an overland trip

A travel blog entry by jonclark2000

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... to Tanzania! In the end it was 1:30 before we left, due to general ineptitude it looked like we wouldn't make it to Namibia's top tourist attraction that evening! We went the first 30km down the coast to Walvis Bay, this place was occupied by the ...

The Journey to Dead Vlei

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers

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Getting around is pretty difficult in Namibia. Distances are vast and desolate and public transportation is almost non-existent. I suppose it figures that in an enormous desert with a population of only 2 million people, public transport is a ...

Sand Sea & If God Exists, He's Taunting Me

A travel blog entry by djchurch

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After mouldering in Windhoek for almost a week, it was clear I would not be hitching a ride to Sossusvlei. Fortunately, neither would Meg and Liz, two American Peace Corps volunteers, so we decided to rent a car and take matters into our own hands. ...

The highest dunes in the world

A travel blog entry by angela_louise

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This was another very strange place. Sossulsvlei is home to the highest sand dunes in the world, but it looks like something out of an apocalypse. There are dead trees everywhere, and its very eerie. It was interesting to look at though. We climbed one ...

Jacko Comes to Town: Part Deux

A travel blog entry by pchun88

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 ...

Surpresas de um deserto alaranjado!

A travel blog entry by foradecasa

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... um bon� enquanto aguard�vamos o guia que nos levaria �s dunas. O caminho para Sossusvlei � praticamente todo asfaltado, o que nos permite um bom desempenho trafegando entre as dunas alaranjadas. Muita areia e poucos ...

De sable et de feu / From sand and fire

A travel blog entry by siegfried_h.

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Les dunes de Namibie sont c�l�bres. Elles le m�ritent. En parler est une chose, les voir en est une autre. Les grimper une exp�rience qu'on oublie pas. Ces dunes sont vivantes. Leur couleur change au cours de la journ�e. D'un jaune p�le � un rouge ...

Fish River Canyon to Sossusvlei

A travel blog entry by supersazza

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Morning started with the local baboons picking there way through the rubbish bins. We drove and drove and drove for 10 hours. Namibia is sparce as we only passed through one tiny town in all the driving, and the locals come out to see you as ...

Namibia is Africa Hot!!!

A travel blog entry by katieb

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... by car is a paved highway that is on top of a dried river bed that' splits the dunes in two. The word Sossusvlei means "sponge" in local language and is called that because when the river bed is flooded the water soaks into the ground under the ...

Namib Naukluft National Park

A travel blog entry by ciaranmckenna

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Sossusvlei and the amazing nature of Namibia

A travel blog entry by yfjell

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... this planet. Hours and hours without houses and cars, just beauty and sandy roads. And the Opel Corsa survived! Getting closer to Sossusvlei we saw ostriches and various types of antilopes. And the sand got redder and redder. Arrived in the afternoon to ...

Sossusvlei

A travel blog entry by rachellocke

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We left Swakopmund fairly early after our few days, and had a half day drive down to an area called Sossusvlei, which is in the Namibian desert, a little bit in from the coast. It's basically an area of sand dunes in the desert surrounding a river ...

Hiking in the Dunes

A travel blog entry by mjlankers

Dunes! ...

Watching the sun rise on Dune 45

A travel blog entry by mxcna78

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... Namibia's sand dunes. Again, I will rely on Wikipedia to capture the essence of Dune 45: "Dune 45 is a star dune in Sossusvlei, Namibia. Its name comes from the fact that it is 45km from Sessriem Canyon. Standing over 170m, it is composed of 5 ...

Sossusvlei

A travel blog entry by spudbraham

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We rented another car to go across the Namib desert to view the famous Sousousvlei sand dunes and take a hike in the Naukluft mountains. The distances are vast here, it took us 5hrs each way to drive and see the dunes. Granted, that's over ...

The awesome Namib

A travel blog entry by bonthorn

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... am not exaggerating). I managed to read a bit of my book before turning off my headtorch. Start: Grunau, NAM. 8:27 End: Sossusvlei, NAM. 17:00 Distance Travelled: 604 km Road Conditions: hard gravel, some corrugation Temperature: hot, in a dry kind ...

Namibie

A travel blog entry by mr_le_singe

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... . Mais tellement de personnes l'ont recommand�e 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 succession de couleurs, d'odeurs, de ...

Wings Over Namibia: The Dunes

A travel blog entry by scott_and_amy

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... to be a year) Amy found a book called "100 Things to Do Before You Die" and on the cover was the Dunes at Sossusvlei. From that point on, Amy was determined to go to Namibia. To accomplish this we decided to do a Wings over Namibia tour that would ...

Sossusvlei - Beetles, Spiders and Sand Dunes

A travel blog entry by badams

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... 6.30am). There are a lot of positives too....when someone shouts "Ostrich at 9 o'clock on the left" it's all a bit surreal!:-) Sossusvlei was the base camp for us to do the sunrise Dune 45 climb and also meet a Bushman to teach us about the ...

Jacko Comes to Town

A travel blog entry by pchun88

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 ...

Red Dunes

A travel blog entry by natecropp

... in front of you. Namibia is a pretty place. According to Lonely Planet and numerous other travelers nowhere is it prettier than Sossusvlei. Or, the place with the Red Dunes. We drove into camp right as the sun was setting and proceeded to get ...

De sable et de feu

A travel blog entry by hypsi

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Les dunes de Namibie sont c�l�bres. Elles le m�ritent. En parler est une chose, les voir en est une autre. Les grimper une exp�rience qu'on oublie pas. Ces dunes sont vivantes. Leur couleur change au cours de la journ�e. D'un jaune p�le � un rouge ...

Day 171 - Namibia, Sossusvlei - Cobra & Ostriches

A travel blog entry by oliveramber

... 't bend my knees.� Little more info than you probably wanted but hey that's truck life. Pulled into Sesriem Camp Site in Sossusvlei National Park around 4pm where we headed straight to the bar for beers and icecream.� Great combo.� Suzy on her third ...

Day 172 - Namibia, Sacred Rocks - Dune 45

A travel blog entry by oliveramber

... fault the view though!� As we were given two hours to wonder we strode off under the midday sun towards the pan of Sossusvlei, a place surrounded by bright red dunes... 5km away.� With the heat rising and not entirely sure where we were going or ...

Martian Land

A travel blog entry by dan-levitan

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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, ...

Dunes

A travel blog entry by phileasfarx

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From the diamond fields, we headed north towards the dune fields around the small town of Sossuvlei. We arrived around an hour before sundown – just enough time to check in to a camp and drive off into the dunes to watch the sun set behind glowing ...

Cruising through Namibia

A travel blog entry by jai_82

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... The car company kindly lent us some pillows, so there was a bit of luxury for the week. The nicest sleep we have had since getting the stupid tent was when we hopped on a 20 hour bus from Windhoek (Namibia) to Cape Town (South Africa). ...

Dune 45

A travel blog entry by frenchbird

... for anymore than 30 minutes in the truck taking through the Namibian countryside, you would probably miss a lot. The land around Namibia just changes constantly. Driving from the Etosha National park which is famous for its salt lake, you can see that ...

stuck in the sand

A travel blog entry by seangreif

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Booked a tour to the dunes because it seems otherwise impossible to get there. Namibia has such a small population compared to its size so there is no public transport for most of the country. I was picked up from my hostel and brought to wilddogs office ...

Sossusvlei sand dunes

A travel blog entry by elainevickers

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We climbed dune 45 at sunrise and then went on a fascinating nature walk with ...

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How not to organise an overland trip

The Journey to Dead Vlei

Sand Sea & If God Exists, He's Taunting Me

The highest dunes in the world

Jacko Comes to Town: Part Deux

Surpresas de um deserto alaranjado!

De sable et de feu / From sand and fire

Fish River Canyon to Sossusvlei

Namibia is Africa Hot!!!

Namib Naukluft National Park

Sossusvlei and the amazing nature of Namibia

Sossusvlei

Hiking in the Dunes

Watching the sun rise on Dune 45

Sossusvlei

The awesome Namib

Namibie

Wings Over Namibia: The Dunes

Sossusvlei - Beetles, Spiders and Sand Dunes

Jacko Comes to Town

Red Dunes

De sable et de feu

Day 171 - Namibia, Sossusvlei - Cobra & Ostriches

Day 172 - Namibia, Sacred Rocks - Dune 45

Martian Land

Dunes

Cruising through Namibia

Dune 45

stuck in the sand

Sossusvlei sand dunes