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Travel Blogs from Twyfelfontein, Namibia
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Bush camps and inept guides
This is a top pick! ... of boulders. Much of it reminded me of areas of Arizona and the Joshua tree NP that I had driven through. Our destination was Twyfelfontein and some rock engravings that are believed to be up to 6000 years old and also some rock paintings. I have to ...
6000 year old Rock Engravings
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 445 Temperature : 28 degrees Weather : Calm, clear and sunny We found a great little campsite in Twyfelfontein, although the interesting open air toilets with no doors and open showers with no curtains were interesting! When we ...
Seals, rocks and paintings
This is a top pick! ... a rhino, a zebra and people. It was a good introduction to the rock carvings we were seeing later that evening in Twyfelfontein! We went to the rock carvings in Twyfelfontein (a couple of hours further north from Spitzkoppe) that evening. Despite a ...
Rocks engravings
This is a top pick! ... , trying to write words while Roman kept the camera at a special shutter speed. The life of the travellers! Corinne 4 nov. Twyfelfontein, gravures sur rochers L'herbe dorée donne une douce lueur sur ces rochers rouges qui sont érigés partout et où ...
Meerkat Manor (and hanging with the Himbas)
... animals roaming nearby, and slept under a blanket of stars. And the next morning, we were up early and speeding off toward Twyfelfontein, which we imagined to be at least a small hamlet but turned out to be nothing more than a small signed pull off ...
Peintures rupestres et chasse à l'éléphant
... , au soleil (un peu façon pub gel douche ushuaia....) Nous repartons pour aller voir les peintures rupestres des bushmen à Twyfelfontein. Les peintures rupestres sont très peu nombreuses, elles datent de 2000 avant JC. Il existe plus de gravures, ...
Swakopmund, Namibia to Twyfelfontein, Namibia
... for a quick visit to see one of these wrecks right along the beach. In the afternoon we reached the area of Twyfelfontein, which means "doubtful spring." This name comes from a spring nearby, which sometimes has water and sometimes does not. A couple of ...
Fluffy Balls
... of Western style shops for so long that we now judged the quality of a place by the number of modern facilities available. Namibia seemed promising on this front. Until there was a blackout whilst I was trying to change money in the bank. Banks having ...
Stone carvings at Twyfelfontein
A truly gorgeous day. We headed west from Otjitotongwe and after a couple of hours reached a 'petrified forest'. It wasn't exactly a forest, huge trees had been swept down a river and then lay there marooned and gradually turned to stone. So there ...
Sand, sand and more sand
... the afternoon we arrived we decided it was about time we had a bit of culture and so headed to a world heritage site. Twyfelfontein or 'doubtful spring' (because it was doubtful that the daily output of water could sustain life) is the site of 6000 year ...
Twyfelfontein, officially The Middle of Nowhere
Monday we had a long drive from Etosha through a whole lot of nothingness, to a place we’ve officially declared The Middle of Nowhere. It was beyond desolate…and dry and hot. In the afternoon we visited the site of a number of ...
All in one
Discovering more and more of this astonishing country, where you get the desert, the wild coast, forests and montains all in one ...
MORE HIKING
... nbsp; We then drove the 181 Kilometers to a campsite near Twyfelfontein where they have prehistoric rock engravings rather than prehistoric paintings. Different type of rocks. We will visit ...
Petrified Forrest, Bushman Paintings, Organ Pipes
... that turned into rock, but not to be! Still, it was the first time that I have seen whole trees that were petrified. At Twyfelfontein, there were some more Bushman paintings and I was made to drive a very bad corrugated road to get to the "organ pipes" ...
Rocks and Trees...and Both at Once
... walls of the gorge as though you're entering Superman's backyard. Pretty cool...in a nerdy sort of way... Twyfelfontein (or Ui-Ais, in it's native name) is Namibia's first World Heritage Site, and it's not hard to see why. So far over 2500 individual ...
Damaraland
... far as we knew) was at Khorixas about 200 km away, so we figured we'd be all right. Turning onto the D-road toward Twyfelfontein, the road became worse, and we had to stick with second and third gear (our standard Corolla had six) thus using more petrol. ...
It's time for some history lessons guys
... as well share this history with you as the boys were about as interested as footballers watching a rugby match. From there onto Twyfelfontein to see the rock engravings and petrified forest - all a similar age to the paintings, dated between 2 and ...
Damaraland
We headed out early to discover some plants. We had to back track a bit to head East toward Twyfelfontein. Doug used his reference texts on plants to locate an area where they had some rare peely bark plant..we had the GPS with the coordinates where we ...
Twyfelfontein
... riders decided to go our separate ways. The other two was on their way to Epupa falls and I would be going to Twyfelfontein and after bidding them farewell I quickly refuelled, 14.71km/l…ouch! What were you expecting from a single cylinder, 4 ...
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