Tsumeb
Travel Blogs from Tsumeb, Namibia
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Among the Khoi San
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 ...
Animals Under the Lights
... anyone who wants to go on an African safari. The accommodation is comfortable, the park is huge with a large variety of animals, and Namibia is a very developed country. And the lions feasting on the zebra was definitely a once in a lifetime ...
East Campsite Day 7
We plan to send 3 days, 2 nights at the campsite, more animals.....but we love seeing them in the ...
Tsumeb - Norman Rockwell's Africa
... 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 ...
East Campsite Day 6
We made our way to the final campsite Namutoni. It is the site of a fort that was originally a German police post and later as a place to hold English prisoners in World War I. The original fort was destroyed shortly after its construction in 1904 ...
It is OUR lion !
The waterhole is empty at sun rise. I kick poor Hubby out of bed at 7! What do you think happens at breakfast? Indeed, it IS the same chick who says: voucher! T says: I' give you the one you gave me last night, shall I?' Then, she does recognizes ...
Arrival in Namibia
... 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 ...
Damaraland and Toyotas
We travelled for about 5 hours from Etosha to Damaraland for our bush camp. We were lucky as there were actually bush toilets (a loo with a bit of canvas around it) in the middle of the grass near the camp! We got set up with our tents (we ...
Entre ombre et chaleur
Le lendemain comme la veille, ils sont partout, magnifiques et sauvages. Ne tolérant les hommes que de loin et ...
Kaokoland
... used rope and bucket to catch the precious resource and carry it back to camp. There really is nothing at the top end of Namibia. The number of animals lining the roads as been surprisingly many, the beauty indescribable, noon is from 10am to 5pm, no ...
Final African Camp
Our last camp was pretty interesting. The camp itself was pretty poor (or we were just tired on being in camps) and we didn't see animals a lot of the time, but we did get them in bunches, especially around the watering hole. But overall we got to see ...
Entre ombre et chaleur/Between shade and heat
Le lendemain comme la veille, ils sont partout, magnifiques et sauvages. Ne tolérant les hommes que de loin et encore... The nest day, like the one before, they are everywhere. Beautiful and wild. Admitting the humans only from ...
Zambia
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 ...
Otavi
Daar moet eers gestop word, want haastig is ons nou rerig nie. Okay, ons is bietjie laat, maar dis Bean se skuld. Ons stop toe maar net op Otavi om te kyk hoe min op die plekkie aangaan. Daar rondgeloop en Bean vertel ons van die bartjie wat se ...
Namutoni
Ons is darem betyds deur die hekke om die panne binne te gaan. En ons het veilig gery tot by Namutoni. Nog oppad Namutoni toe sien ons 'n steenbokkie en Bean neem amper sy film of kaart vol. Aangekom by Namutoni soek ons die Robertsons. Hulle ...
Etosha
We've done a lot of driving around in Etosha, we've been able to have a good look at the animals and the landscape. We spent only one night at the Okaukuejo campsite - the following day we drove to the second campsite, Namutoni. Despite leaving on our ...
Etosha, here we come!
Namibia is an hour behind SA, making it the same time as home, but this also meant it was lighter an hour earlier. I was up at 6am, and so were Mike and Greg. I had just put some dirty clothes on with my nightshirt as I had planned to have a shower, but ...
Kupfer Quelle resort
Broke wet camp whilst let boys chill in front of TV and headed for Grootfontein. 220kms - as we set off by 8am stopped at Rundu for supplies - book said small town but bigger than Katima and good shop. It rained as we came out of Shoprite. Hit road and ...
Etosha National Park
... . 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 ...
3 out of 5 ain't bad
Wow, wow, wow! We were told that Etosha was good and days 11 and 12 gave us a real taste for Africa. The best investment we have made since leaving home was a zoom lens for the camera and it has been zoomed so much lately. On the drive into ...
Caprivi, Okavango, and On to Etosha!
... . 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
... left.... 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 ...
Etosha Lions
... said just outside Exeter – an hour from me!! Bizarre – meeting someone who lives an hour away from me in the middle of Namibia!! We watched the sun go down and after eating went back to the waterhole. It was very noisy as usual and as we were ...
At this zoo, we're in the cage!
... 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 ...
Otjikoto
Volgende stop die Otjikoto meer. Ek wou graag by 'n lodge langs die pad gestop het om net 'n drankie te drink, maar ons moet voor sononder binne die panne wees. Die vissies sien jy swem in die water, so die water is helder. Daar sien ek ook 'n ...
Victoria Falls to Etoshia National Park
Hello all!! This is written about a week after the events happened as we haven't had any access to internet. I'll be filling you all in on our adrenaline day in Victoria falls while Bonnie recaps our adventures in Etoshia National Park. So this ...
Going East
... 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 ...
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