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Swakopmund Slideshow
Top Hotels in Swakopmund
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Swakopmund Htl Entertainmnt Ctr
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Europa Hof Swakopmund
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Hansa Swakopmund
65 reviews
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Strand Swakopmund
5 reviews
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Hotel Pension A la Mer Swakopmund
9 reviews
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Hotel Pension d'Avignon Swakopmund
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Hotel Pension Rapmund Swakopmund
25 reviews
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Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge Swakopmund
19 reviews
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Sam's Giardino Swakopmund
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Swakop Lodge Swakopmund
12 reviews
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Hotel Eberwein Swakopmund
10 reviews
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Guesthouse Fischreiher Swakopmund
3 reviews
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Deutsches Haus Swakopmund
39 reviews
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Adler Garni Hotel Swakopmund
8 reviews
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Beach Lodge Swakopmund
47 reviews
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Burning Shore Swakopmund
22 reviews
Swakopmund
Travel Blogs from Swakopmund, Namibia
More tobogganing on sand
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 9, Sand tobogganing on the dunes again The kids had enjoyed it so much yesterday that they wanted to toboggan again today...so we ended up buying sand boards (simple rectangular masonite boards) and some wax and off we ...
Back On the Road
This is a top pick! Yesterday we went out to nowhere at all - the welwitchia plants. Where to begin about these...? These plants are remnants of tropical forest. They have adapted to live in the some of the driest desert on earth (2 cm of rain per year - many years with no ...
Activities on dunes
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 11, Activities on the dunes We stayed at Desert Sky backpackers Since it is Lance's birthday soon, the kids decided to have a surprise adventure for him and me....I will have to admit that I don't like surprises and ...
Moon Landscapes and Weird Welwichias
This is a top pick! ... and Bernhard, a German couple that we saw in Sesriem, and they happened to be staying at the same hostel as us in Swakopmund. After a couple of evenings chatting over dinner and wine in Swakopmund we all decided that we would head north and drive up the ...
A taste of Namibian culture
This is a top pick! ... spent the past few days in the city of Swakopmund on the Atlantic Coast. There are many Germans living in Swakopmund as well as the rest of Namibia because it used to be a German colony (South Africa later ruled Namibia until it gained independence in ...
Rolling quad bikes and biting turtles
This is a top pick! Excellent fun packed day. We signed up for a quad bike/sand board combo. After a quick ride on out semi automatic quads we stopped for about 40 minutes at a place where we sped down a steep dune on a thin veneered polished piece of plywood. ...
Resting in Swakopmund
This is a top pick! We arrived in Swakopmund before sunset and I rushed to the beach. I jumped in just as the sun touched the water. When the sun is near the horizon here it moves very fast because we are so near the equator. It was gone within a few seconds. I jumped in ...
Seals and Civilization!!!
This is a top pick! ... the corner. After stopping of at the Seal Colony (the newborns were so cute!), we pulled into the Promised Land... Swakopmund!! A real modern city! Paved roads, sidewalks, coffee shops, stores....paradise!! And a bed, TV, private bathroom... ...
Vacation in civilization!
This is a top pick! ... of WWI when South Africa was given jurisdiction of the territory. It wasn't until 1990 that Namibia became fully independent of South African control. Swakopmund reflects this past by being a town of full of cute, historic German architecture, populated ...
Beach Resort
This is a top pick! ... the Swakop") which is on the Atlantic coast of northwestern Namibia (see map above), 175 miles west of Windhoek, Namibia's capital. Swakopmund is the main beach resort in the country and an example of German colonial architecture. It was founded in ...
Searching for sidewinders in little Germany
This is a top pick! ... windows on the truck pulled down. Everyone was freezing and wrapped in hats gloves and sleeping bags. We arrived at Swakopmund and went straight to a place called Desert Explorers where we could book numerous activities. Swakop is a popular Namibian ...
Overlanding in Africa: Part 1
This is a top pick! It's been a few days now since we left Cape Town and any kind of civilisation. We've just arrived in Swakopmund on the Skeleton Coast of Namibia after 5 days of overlanding up the West coast of Southern Africa. It's been an incredible few days and start ...
The Magic of Namibia
This is a top pick! ... in motion merits its title as King or Queen of the jungle. After learning all of these facts and witnessing amazing animal behaviour, Namibia, our second country in the South of Africa is proving to be one of our favourites. ...
Between the desert and the sea
This is a top pick! ... 'd already done, and even if it was really fun, we'd already far exceeded our spending limit for Namibia with our Sossusvlei tour. What we did in Swakopmund was still excellent fun, however, and I'd recommend a jaunt there if you've got a minute for ...
Seafood and Shopping - Swakopmund Style.
This is a top pick! ... could get the car owners to wake up and move their cars. There are lots of adventure sports to be tackled in Swakopmund like skydiving, bungee jumping and dune buggies, but tackling our seafood platter and buying some clothes was ...
We will take photos of you as you zoom past ...
This is a top pick! ... had a massive sleep in until 8:30am -usually up by 6am and on the road by 7am. Spent the day wondering around swakopmund which is such a beatuiful town - reminds me of Lorne with a German influence. Well yesterday was the much anticipated sandboarding ...
Swakopmund
This is a top pick! ... which was inland, a huge sandstone mountain set in the desert, the stars were beautiful that night. Now we are in Swakopmund, you feel like you are in Germany not Africa, the architecture and food, drinks, and the language...they speak German!! Its a ...
Flying and boarding
This is a top pick! Onto Swakopmund - the adrenalin centre of Namibia. After a bit of a hardsell from the activities company, I managed to avoid the draw of Skydiving (need a bit more courage before I get on to that!!) and chose a scenic flight over the Kuiseb canyon, ...
Swakopmund = "Bowel Opening"
This is a top pick! ... following week I sat and watched the waves roll in and felt something therapeutic in the crashing waves. My week in Swakopmund consisted mostly of eating sausages, and wandering around aimlessly. Probably the highlight of the week came with the ...
From the desert to the coast
... were also a couple of shipwrecks, which had been blown high on to the dunes. As we got closer to Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, we flew over giant Seal colonies, then clouds of flamingoes close to the Salt Pans. We landed at Swakop airport which ...
Oct 18, 2011
Weirdest Town Of The Tour So Far
Fell asleep on the drive back down the salt road to Swakopmund, named for being at the mouth of the Swakop river apparently. Seems that the town was pretty much built on sand dunes that they just shovelled out of the way, and as the prevailing conditions ...
Sand in every orifice/crack of my body
... me $100 US to make sure it was covered and I would leave the rest at the hostel in Cape Town as everything was closed in Swakopmund on Sundays (weird). So took my bus and again it was weird to be leaving the group and I felt a little down leaving ...
The second most southern town in Germany.
... who's boss. On getting to the coast, we first went to Walvis Bay. It was weird to be back in a town again. Walvis is Namibia's biggest port and handles just about anything that moves in or out of the country. As such, it was pretty nice. So we ...
Sand dunes and endless skies of Namibia
BBC country profile: NAMIBIA http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1063245.stm From the BBC site: Namibia, a large and sparsely populated country on Africa's south-west coast, enjoyed more than a decade of stability under its ...
Quad Biking & Sandboarding
Nice sleep in this morning then 8:30 pickup for quadbiking even though the office was about 100m away lol. Went with Tania, Paul & Jo along with 4 middle aged Americans. After reading the warning about manuals getting bogged and the cost of repairs, ...
Desert Dunes
Years ago, flipping through one of my National Geographics, I became intrigued by the people and landscapes of Namibia. I remember ochre-covered bodies gleaming in the sun, desert dunes stretching endlessly on. It was this memory that led me, somewhat ...
4 days in the Swakop dunes
... ( I know what people are thinking but these animals are not endangered and the meats were actually very tasty). Saturday 12th September. Swakopmund has strange weather patterns being by sea and desert in that for most days of the year fog clouds the town ...
Enfim o Atlântico!
... e visitarmos o monumento nacional de pegadas de dinossauros, finalmente chegamos ao mar em Swakopmund, que é considerada a capital nacional dos esportes radicais na Namibia. Diferentemente das demais estradas que pegamos na Namíbia ...
Sesriem Namibia to Swakopmund, Namibia
We finally made our way into Swakopmund late last night. With the truck still broken, we weren't able to leave when we wanted. I think it was around 3pm by the time a chartered bus showed up to get us going. Although, that took a little longer since the ...