Tsumeb, Namibia Travel Blogs

Among the Khoi San
Jan 18, 2006 (5 photos)

Roy's Restcamp was a great place to stay. It was run by a young German couple, who were helpful in every way. They have a huge tract of land and I taught them some things about hunting mushrooms. I was pleased to find at least 5 different species of ...

Tsumeb - Norman Rockwell's Africa
Sep 7, 2007

... feels unreal. It is pleasant and inoffensive. Flame trees line carefully laid out streets, the air is clean, and amazingly for Namibia, lawns are green. It almost has a deserted feeling to it. The main street has a cute little collection of local shops ...

Arrival in Namibia
Nov 26, 2007

... so we managed to get some sleep. This morning we are organising our own rental car to travel through Namibia over the next week. Tsumeb is a very civilised town - very structured, clean, a bit sleepy - there are lots of white people and I ...

Zambia
Feb 8, 2009

Zambia   Zambia is one of the least populated countries in Africa with 16 people per sq km.  There are vast stretches of country with bush and some smaller settlements while there are very few larger cities.  The northern ...

Etosha National Park
Sep 22, 2006 (6 photos)

... . From Maun, we were able to get a nice public bus to a town about 10 km from the border in the North, gateway to Namibia's Caprivi Strip. However, from there we had to wait for a minibus to fill to get to the border, and there seemed to be nobody but us ...

Caprivi, Okavango, and On to Etosha!
Apr 18, 2007 (20 photos)

... .   On the other end of the spectrum, we had met the previous day, Germans who were motorcycling 16,000k from Windhoek (Namibia) back home (Hamburg area), in 7 weeks.   Our day ended at the Swamp Stop in Sepopa, where we hoped to get a ...

Animals, LOTS of Animals
Apr 21, 2007 (20 photos)

... now that caused some cerebral confusion for a while.   It was raining as we set out -rather unexpected since we thought Namibia would continue to dry out as we headed west.  But we went anyway, and the rain didn't seem the bother the animals. ...

At this zoo, we're in the cage!
Apr 21, 2007 (18 photos)

... and yank, all sorts of splitting branch noises let us know they were back to eating. Etosha is interesting; it's mostly the normal Namibia landscape, small scrub trees and sand.  But in the middle is the Etosha pan, which is a very big, very flat ...

Going East
Jul 9, 2009 (4 photos)

... Etosha N.P. I am at the point to move from the western side to the eastern side of Africa. This was involving another gravel road to take, where I have seen first traditional huts of bushmen. I will head west driving along the "panhandle" of Namibia.

The long drive to Bushmanland
Aug 11, 2009 (34 photos)

... : Nhoma Camp is a tented camp owned by the Ju/’hoan community of //Nhoq’ma village and operated by Namibia Adventure Safaris which owns Tsumkwe Lodge. The camp can accommodate eight clients in twin safari tents, each with an adjoining grass- ...

Gateway my ass!
Aug 27, 2006

The lonely planet reliably informs me that Tsumeb is "The gateway to Etsha". So i get a bus to Tsumeb, happy as larry! When i arrive isnt a nice place and the locals clearly dont care for me by the constant dodgy stairs that ive not got used to yet. ...

Etosha National Park
Nov 2, 2007 (5 photos)

Namutoni and Halali campsites...driving between the sites was a wild zoo of African animals.  I think we saw everything but Leopards! The salt pan is a vast dry area during the dry season (you'll see in the picture).  During the rainy season, ...

tsumeb and on
Jun 29, 2005

nothing spectacular. pitching our tents, shopping in a supermarket for the last time "before the wild", before going into kaokoveld area - himba lands where we cant find supermarkets.

Etosha
Jul 6, 2001

Tsumeb

Received Range Rover
Nov 24, 2004

We stayed with some friends twice and they gave us their range Rover