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Travel Blogs from Tsumeb, Namibia

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Among the Khoi San, East of Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Among the Khoi San

A travel blog entry by cpricci

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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, Etosha National Park, Namibia travel blog

Animals Under the Lights

A travel blog entry by globedecker

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... 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 8, Namutoni, Namibia travel blog

East Campsite Day 8

A travel blog entry by goodrichodyssey

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Our final day out of the ...

East Campsite Day 7, Namutoni, Namibia travel blog

East Campsite Day 7

A travel blog entry by goodrichodyssey

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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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Tsumeb - Norman Rockwell's Africa

A travel blog entry by djchurch

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... 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, Namutoni, Namibia travel blog

East Campsite Day 6

A travel blog entry by goodrichodyssey

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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 !, Namutoni, Namibia travel blog

It is OUR lion !

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina

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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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Arrival in Namibia

A travel blog entry by benjamine

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... 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, Spitzkoppe, Namibia travel blog

Damaraland and Toyotas

A travel blog entry by badams

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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, Etosha, Namibia travel blog

Entre ombre et chaleur

A travel blog entry by hypsi

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Le lendemain comme la veille, ils sont partout, magnifiques et sauvages. Ne tolérant les hommes que de loin et ...

Kaokoland, Opuwo, Namibia travel blog

Kaokoland

A travel blog entry by dusted

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... 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, Ongava Tented Camp, Namibia travel blog

Final African Camp

A travel blog entry by scott_and_amy

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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, Etosha, Namibia travel blog

Entre ombre et chaleur/Between shade and heat

A travel blog entry by siegfried_h.

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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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Zambia

A travel blog entry by hans-jenny

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, Otavi, Namibia travel blog

Otavi

A travel blog entry by nicky.bekker

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, Namutoni, Namibia travel blog

Namutoni

A travel blog entry by nicky.bekker

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, Etosha National Park, Namibia travel blog

Etosha

A travel blog entry by anneowens

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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 ...

Tsumeb, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Tsumeb

A travel blog entry by izzie

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Etosha, here we come!, Namutoni, Etosha, Namibia, Namibia travel blog

Etosha, here we come!

A travel blog entry by emmaw

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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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Kupfer Quelle resort

A travel blog entry by punter2010

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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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Etosha National Park

A travel blog entry by tychii

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... . 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, Etosha National Park, Namibia travel blog

3 out of 5 ain't bad

A travel blog entry by liammichelle

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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 ...

Etosha park, Etosha, Namibia travel blog

Etosha park

A travel blog entry by arlash

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Caprivi, Okavango, and On to Etosha!, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Caprivi, Okavango, and On to Etosha!

A travel blog entry by imapilot

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... .   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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Animals, LOTS of Animals

A travel blog entry by imapilot

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... 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, Namutoni, Etosha, Namibia, Namibia travel blog

Etosha Lions

A travel blog entry by emmaw

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... 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!, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

At this zoo, we're in the cage!

A travel blog entry by spudbraham

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... 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, Otjikoto, Namibia travel blog

Otjikoto

A travel blog entry by nicky.bekker

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, Just outside Etoshia, Namibia travel blog

Victoria Falls to Etoshia National Park

A travel blog entry by bonnieandpaul

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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, Tsumeb, Namibia travel blog

Going East

A travel blog entry by pajas

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... 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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