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Travel Blogs from Sossusvlei, Namibia
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How not to organise an overland trip
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! 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
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
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!
... um boné enquanto aguardávamos o guia que nos levaria às dunas. O caminho para Sossusvlei é 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
Les dunes de Namibie sont célèbres. Elles le méritent. En parler est une chose, les voir en est une autre. Les grimper une expérience qu'on oublie pas. Ces dunes sont vivantes. Leur couleur change au cours de la journée. D'un jaune pâle à un rouge ...
Sizzling, Scorching, Sandy, Surreal Sossuvlei
5am start to catch the sunrise over the dunes...Hiked to the top of Dune 40 to catch some terrific sunrise scenes. Quite glad we chose to do Dune 40 instead of the more popular Dune 45 as there were hardly any people around. We even got to see an ...
Fish River Canyon to Sossusvlei
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!!!
... 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 ...
Sossusvlei and the amazing nature of Namibia
... 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 ...
Sand Dunes
Drove through more mountains and desert to arrive at Sossusvlei Lodge. Again spectacular. Welcomed by management with our drink. Our individual lodges are half solid building and half tent with a patio overlooking the veld and the ...
Just 'Dune' it!
... the days till we would be on our own again, we did enjoy exploring the dunes in Deadvlei with the group. The day we entered Sossusvlei our driver Chris notified us we had to pay extra to use a different jeep as our GAP truck could not make it through the ...
Sossusvlei
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 ...
Watching the sun rise on Dune 45
... 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
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
... 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
... . 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 succession de couleurs, d'odeurs, de ...
Wings Over Namibia: The Dunes
... 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 ...
Day 171 - Namibia, Sossusvlei - Cobra & Ostriches
... '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 ...
Sossusvlei - Beetles, Spiders and Sand Dunes
... 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 ...
Day 172 - Namibia, Sacred Rocks - Dune 45
... 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 ...
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 ...
Red Dunes
... 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
Les dunes de Namibie sont célèbres. Elles le méritent. En parler est une chose, les voir en est une autre. Les grimper une expérience qu'on oublie pas. Ces dunes sont vivantes. Leur couleur change au cours de la journée. D'un jaune pâle à un rouge ...
Karoolta karummaksi
Päivää taloon. Kiitoksia kaikille kommentoijille ja lukijoille, mukava tietää, että joku kotipuolessa vilkaiseekin tätä. Taas on päästy nettiyhteyden äärelle, tällä kertaa Swakopmundissa Namibiassa. Aika harvinaista keski-euroopan ...
Fun On A Sand Dune
... the Namib Desert. And it was here that we had loads of fun on a sand dune. Soussuelei label the number one highlight of Namibia and quite rightly so. As we drove through the national park, we admired the variety of sand dunes and desert plant life. But ...
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, ...
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