Swakopmund, Namibia Travel Blogs

Sand boarding in Namib Desert
Sep 13, 2009 (8 photos)

Sand boarding in Namibia Desert near Swakopmund. It was so cold, it felt like snowboarding. Lot's of fun! I did both stand up (on adapted snowboards) and lying down - where you go down the biggest dune with 80 km per hour on a piece of wood.

Day 173 - Namibia, Swakopmund - Quad Biking
Apr 30, 2009

... much encasing the town bringing the temperature down with it. Reminded us of chilly days spent in San Francisco. Swakopmund's biggest attractions, besides the beautiful sand dunes, is adrenaline packed activities - sky diving, quad biking and sandboarding ...

Day 175 - Namibia, Swakopmund - Hugging Seals
May 2, 2009

... an oyster farm consisting of dozens and dozens of wooden barges with cages hung beneath, each containing 1,000 oysters. Heaven!! Here in Namibia they take 8 months to grow to an edible size compared to SA where it takes 2 years and NZ 8 years!! Apparently ...

A Day at the Beach...Africa?
Sep 30, 2006 (9 photos)

We had an action pack day of a scenic flight of the dunes and some low flying manuvears in the fog before making it to the coast for some whale watching. Well we never saw any whales but got pretty tight with a seal and some birds all prior to a lovely ...

Strolling around Swakopmund
Jan 19, 2009 (4 photos)

... and looked for dolphins (we did not see any, but my Mom saw some the next morning on her run). We also went to the Swakopmund Museum, where we learned about how it was for the Germans and other people who used to live here in the 1800s, and also about all ...

Swakopmund- adventures on the dunes!
Mar 26, 2007 (6 photos)

So, we are now in Swakopmund and have been since saturday afternoon.  Here we are in the desert, on the west coast of namibia.  The desert is all sand dunes, beautiful rolling dunes made of really soft sand....and as it happens, the perfect place ...

Desert
Oct 4, 2009 (4 photos)

05/10/09        Swakopmund 250ks Nothing here in namibia is close. This ride was 250ks with one straight the was one hour long. This took us right through the desert and past the tropic of Capricorn. Great ride.

Cheetah'd
Sep 2, 2005 (5 photos)

... hunks of meat and we watched the cheetahs grab a piece and run off to eat it. Good fun. So the next day we drove to Swakopmund (where I am now) on the coast. Along the way we stopped off at Cape Cross to see the seal colony - I have never seen (or ...

Spitzkoppe
Mar 23, 2007 (3 photos)

... a town, just simply a camping area in the middle of the desert.  This area was completely stunning....called the matterhorn of Namibia.  When I pu the photos up you'll see why.  Basically it's an area of scrub land with massive granite rock ...

Swakopmund - Adrenaline City
Mar 18, 2009 (16 photos)

... ammonia.  They are good to watch as some of them were asleep with the heads tilted right back. I'm now in Swakopmund, the adrenaline city of Namibia. It has certainly lived up to it's name.  We arrived on Monday after our bush camp and it was ...

Swakopmund Desert Experience
Apr 16, 2008 (10 photos)

... . This in itself was pretty interesting, as I have never encountered such vast open expanses and space. Arriving in Swakopmund, we noticed how structured and organized the town itself was. Located on the Atlantic, it is German influence stamped all ...

Swakopmund
May 4, 2007

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Desert et mer
May 23, 2009 (44 photos)

Swakompund est le pendant de victoria falls. Une ville ou on peut faire plein d activite. Moi, c etait montgolfiere et cheval. C est une ville tres allemande dans son architecture, et le climat correspond bien puisqu il fait froid et l eau et glacial ...

Swakamond
Oct 6, 2009 (2 photos)

05/10/09 Swakopmund 250ks Nothing here in namibia is close. This ride was 250ks with one straight the was one hour long. This took us right through the desert and past the tropic of Capricorn. Great ride.  

Eddie's Result of a Day
Feb 5, 2007

... could surpass his 73 and 74 km/hr speeds. Apparently weight distribution and compactness are important assests!! Back at the Swakopmund lodge, Eddie's result of a day continued with the barman opening up the main bar so that he could watch the Ireland ...

Swakopmund Namibia Adventures!
May 12, 2006 (8 photos)

We're about to leave this little town of Swakopmund and am not certain when we'll have internet again... We're in Swakopmund which is a little beach town (it even has a strand) surrounded by miles of emmence, red dunes. We have been eating well and ...

Jeux dans un carré de sable
Oct 12, 2004 (5 photos)

... d'été quand je n'étais qu'un petit garçon. Les châteaux de sables ici peuvent plus gros que dans mon enfance, c'est tout. Swakopmund est une petite ville balnéaire qui a définitivement des allures germaniques. Ça fait tout drôle de rouler pendant des heures au ...

Atlantic Ocean
Apr 29, 2007 (12 photos)

... to go the wind gave us it's all and we were slowed to 6km/hr (Still, one hour till we arrived at Swakopmund).  Seriously, I'm not kidding.  It was very frustrating! But we did finally wrestle our way in and are now enjoying pastries, ...

Spotting the Big Five
Sep 6, 2004 (2 photos)

... facts about the plight of the cheetah, of which there are less than 10,000 left in the world. From interior Namibia, we headed to the altantic ocean coast. The weather is now colder and wetter. We drove through Skeleton Coast National Park where we ...

Funky Town
Oct 9, 2009 (2 photos)

... enough time to find out where we can go tomorrow to find a suitable replacement. Hakuna matata.  There’s the Swakopmund Brauhaus to take away the worry.  We enjoy a weissenbier from a new brewery in Windhoek called Camelthorn Brewing.  ...

The Sands of Swakopmund
Sep 18, 2006 (8 photos)

... to a room of the hotel to watch a video presented by Outback Orange of the activities we could participate in while in Swakopmund. We had seen a brochure earlier on our truck and had tentatively decided upon dune buggying as something we'd like to do. ...

Who would jump out of a perfectly good plane......
Jan 10, 2008 (26 photos)

... I'm having.  Just think though it saves me doing it when I'm home.  Less than 2 weeks now! In Swakopmund on the west coast of Namibia.  If you didn't know already it is the adrenalin capital of Africa.  I didn't think I was much of ...

Swakopmund, Namibie
Nov 20, 2006 (17 photos)

Swakopmund, Namibie

Skeleton Coast
Mar 22, 2008 (33 photos)

March 22, 2008 Swakopmund, Namibia This morning we took the Inter Cape Mainliner to Swakopmund. You would think that after our disastrous trip on Inter Cape from Livingston to Windhoek we would have learned not to trust them. But there doesn´t seem to ...

Beach Resort
Apr 13, 2009 (3 photos)

... the Swakop") which is on the Atlantic coast of northwestern Namibia (see map above), 175 miles west of Windhoek, Namibia's capital. Swakopmund is the main beach resort in the country and an example of German colonial architecture. It was founded in ...

One extra day in paradise
May 2, 2007

... Michael, is sick, we can not leave for the Northern Namibia as scheduled today. We had to stay one extra day in Swakopmund. Fine with me, since I finally have chance to update my travel blogs. Actually, most of the blogs you are reading were updated ...

Namibia
Jul 14, 2008 (10 photos)

... seeing the animals and fauna plus learning how the bushmen used to live and were eventually wiped out. We made it to Swakopmund - a very german town. Here we have visted a township, visited a AIDS nursery, bought loads of toys and things for the kids - ...

Luxury camping
Dec 16, 2005

Hey guys!! Tonight I am staying in luxury camping.. in a dorm room! We get 2 nights here at Swokopmund which is on the Indian Ocean, so warm water.. and on the other side we have just come from the Namib Desert. Not much time left and the keyboard ...

I've been through the desert on a bike with noname
Apr 28, 2007 (18 photos)

... German bier. I'll spare you the reflections though. So we're a little burned out on biking, especially with wind, but Swakopmund has all the required ingredients to fix that sort of thing; lovely B&B, Laundromat,  no biking, and fully ...

Etosha National Park
Oct 31, 2003 (3 photos)

... later this afternoon. We have spent the last 2 nights in Etosha National Park - one of the last great wilderness areas in Namibia. We took the truck out both days to cruise the wildlands. Highlights included a male lion lunging at the truck (yes, I ...