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- Windhoek
- Capital
- Namibian Dollar (NAD)
- Currency
- 1,797,677
- Population
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Namibia Slideshow
Namibia
Travel Blogs from Namibia
A Sweet Story
This is a top pick! ... of them were either thought provoking or very humourous. This one, I will cherish. It seems that in a village in Namibia, like many villages in Africa, a group of women would trek close to 20 km a day back and ...
We will take photos of you as you zoom past ...
This is a top pick! "We will take photos of you as you zoom past us - make sure you look like you are enjoying yourself and not shitting your pants" said the sandboarding guide! Result is attached!!! ( I was made to wear the helmet - I know it makes me look sooo much more ...
Swakopmund
This is a top pick! Wow....We have had a manic time since we last wrote from the Okavango Delta in Botswana, We crossed the border into Namibia in an area called the Caprivi Strip which is in the far north, and spent that night at a campground set on the River, it was nice ...
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, ...
Traveling with grown up "kids"
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 12, Travelling with grown up "kids" If I had my reservations and thought that maybe at times, we would find ourselves excluded from the young crowd, or felt we were "extras", this is not at all what we have experienced ever ...
Swakopmund = "Bowel Opening"
This is a top pick! ... I packed up and headed to the capital of Windhoek. Just outside of town I was picked up by Tim, a businessman from Cape Town, in Namibia on business. Hitching can sometimes be a bit of a dice roll, you never know what you might get. Sometimes, however, ...
Coast to Coast...we made it!
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 5, Coast to Coast...we made it! "This is the wrong way" says Tristan through the car window, a grimace on his face... “What?!” I exclaim... With my map in hand, I walk to their truck where an elderly woman was ...
Dead Vlei - Sandunes & Views.
This is a top pick! Namibia is a bit like Australia - everywhere is a long way, away and there is not too much to see on the journey! After a few more dramas and delays, we finally set off for Sesriem (the gateway to the biggest sand dunes in the world) about midday, in ...
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 ...
Etosha 2
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 3, Etosha 2 "There are a lot of workers doing a lot of nothing" is what Peggy would have added on a card asking for tourists comments...Indeed, this is often true...I guess at the price they are paid, who would want to work ...
Crossing the Namibian border
This is a top pick! ... otherwise be expected. At 825,418 km², Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country (after Venezuela). After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world (2.5 persons per km²). I am a bit nervous about not ...
Flamingos for Michal
This is a top pick! I call the airport before 9. No jumping this morning. Indeed it is more cloudy than yesterday. Call back at 12. We go and visit the Salt Works. That a salt mine, started by the family Klein in 1933 and still in the family hands today. The basins in ...
Rocks engravings
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 4, Twyfelfontein, rocks engravings We stayed at Aba Huab campsite The golden grass gives a soft glow to these red rocks that are erected everywhere and where 2500 rock engravings have been found so far... most of them ...
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 ...
Dunes, dunes and more dunes
This is a top pick! Moved on to Sesriem after Aus, and I started to get really excited again after a few days of frustration at sitting on the truck! This was one of the highlights of the tour for me - really looking forward to seeing the dunes, especially having had a ...
Discovering Windhoek
This is a top pick! ... comes back with info. The city is only 3 blocks away, so we walk there for lunch. It are looooong blocks!!! Like almost whole Namibia: Windhoek is German! The owners of our pension are German (as are the guests), the pubs are German and so is the food. ...
Wayward Luggage Returned!
This is a top pick! Yes, it finally happened - a reunion with our luggage! We left Swakopmund very early and found it quite a picturesque journey back to Windhoek, We chose to take the sealed road all the way rather than the shorter unsealed route. Eerily there were quite ...
New Year Wishes
This is a top pick! To my dear Family and Friends, My New Year wish for you, in the pictures attached. Click on 'view as slideshow' and also read the titles. All our love, Dr T and ...
Nieuwjaarswensen
This is a top pick! Voor onze liefste familie en vrienden, Mijn nieuwjaarswensen, met foto's. Klik op 'view as slideshow' en lees ook de titels. Liefs, Dr T en ...
The most beautiful dunes in the world
This is a top pick! ... the 2 km hike. Of course, by now it is noon and this is one of the driest and hottest places on earth. Despite being Namibia's number 1 attraction, it is deserted (!). We see nobody on our whole hike. The total surface of the desert is 32.000 km2. ...
Ai Ais Hot Springs
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Nov 13 Ai-Ais hot springs We got lucky because the road out of Luderitz was not as windy as when we came in... the sun is blaring and the skies are so blue...better that way when one camps!! The road to Ai-Ais is gorgeous again, ...
To jump or not to jump
This is a top pick! Call the airport once more at 9. No jumping this morning. Hope for this afternoon. Call back at 12. I read about the cemeteries in Swakopmund, the twin village of Walvis Bay. The German and the African cemetery are lying side by side and what a ...
Laziest New Year ever
This is a top pick! Hung around the swimming pool, had Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel, hung around the swimming pool and went back to Joe' Beer Garden for diner. There was not a lot open in the city, so it was easy enough. Even the diner came slowly. But that is OK, Dr T was very ...
Namib Desert, by Roman
This is a top pick! ... the sun is up (so much for a sunrise on the dune! Thus the stardust shower down the Sesriem National Park’s parabolic dunes of Namibia.) Roman 10 nov. Sesriem, désert de Namibie, de Roman Mésaventure Magnum ... qu'est-ce que c'est? Il était sur ...
Solitaire village
This is a top pick! We have to drive 300 km today. The roads will not be that good, so minimum 4 hours drive. Dr T booked us a 'lodge': http://www.namibialodges.com/solitaire.html There is very little choice around the Dunes and it IS high season, so we consider ...
Dildo National Park
This is a top pick! ... , watching the sun go down. I did not forget that, so I looked it up, yesterday and indeed: http://www.namibian.org/travel/namibia/etosha.htm Where at the first rest camp, they do have those bungalows. But, ouch, look at that price: ...
Etosha national park
This is a top pick! ... like to do and what we end up doing... The prices in Botswana’s parks were terrible so we ended up going to Namibia faster than intended... Here, in Etosha, when we first arrived, I felt somewhat disappointed at the “big village” that ...
Zebras and more zebras !!!
This is a top pick! We are at the park gate BEFORE 9! To make a long story short: it takes FOUR check-ins to get booked and have a map. The whole park is run by the government but still, you have to line 4 times to get the administration done. We are at our chalet at 10 and ...
It is OUR lion !
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Happy birthday, Broekske
This is a top pick! And indeed, the next morning, my knee is almost as bad in the beginning. We book 2 extra nights. Dr T gets me a table, so I can sit on the terrace of the room. And gets me take away. Next day we sing for Broekske: she is turning 21 again today! I ...