Country Info
- Windhoek
- Capital
- Namibian Dollar (NAD)
- Currency
- 1,797,677
- Population
- NA
- Country Code
Namibia Slideshow
Namibia
Travel Blogs from Namibia
New Year's Eve in Windhoek: Joe's Beer Garden
This is a top pick! I check out in the morning. While the girl at the reception makes my bill (2 nights + meals + drinks) a guy bursts in. 'Can you charge my batteries?' (Sure. Here you go. I'll put them in the charger). AND, 'I go for breakfast now, I am in room XX, can ...
Lazy day at the swimming pool
This is a top pick! We spend our day in and around the swimming pool. It IS very hot but there is a pleasant breeze and the pool water feels cold, though it is 27 degrees. Tony's office is at the pool, so internet and a swim are all at hand. In the evening we drive to ...
Waving at Angola
This is a top pick! ... , we cannot cross the border to Angola for a day: my passport is no longer valid for more than 6 months, so I cannot re-enter Namibia afterwards. We go for a meal in the hotel. Here, maximum a forth of the wines on the list are available. Why they do ...
Waving at Angola, Zambia AND Botswana
This is a top pick! Today, we drive along the borders of Angola, Zambia and Botswana, to a place called Katima Mulilo. From there it is only 70 kilometres to Botswana. Dr T shops for some ice, coke and beer before we leave. I stay in the car with our expensive computers. ...
Sand blast
This is a top pick! ... this is where Kolmanskop lies: a ghost town eaten away by the sand and which used to be the Diamond Mine headquarters. Namibia has incredible sceneries and is indeed beautiful! The road has contoured the entire Namib Desert, so instead of travelling among ...
Halloween in Namibia
This is a top pick! ... ...wao! This is the first time we meet a town that has beauty and character. In fact, ever since we have entered Namibia, things are different: first of all, less people, but also better roads, nicer town and villages, cleaner surroundings. It is ...
Sand boarding ...
This is a top pick! ... THAT is the reason to come here Hubby is a snowboarder. I am not. I do try and break ribs. This time with my knee, I will watch him sand boarding. The principle: snowboarding on sand. First you climb up a dune. You put wax on your board ...
To the capital of Namibia: Windhoek
This is a top pick! We will eat some kilometers today: about 500. Not so much, I know but Namibia does not have any really big roads. A-roads are highways: there are none here. B-roads are rather straight, paved road on which you can drive 120 km/hour max. But: they also go ...
Going to Walvis Bay for a reason
This is a top pick! We leave at 9 and ... get lost in the city. Interesting though. Sad too. 10 minutes from the center, the poverty is screaming. We are stared at. Probably not a good idea for your car to break down here. Hubby booked a hotel in Walvis Bay: Protea. Part ...
Premier camp près de Windhoek
Arrivée à Johannesburg le 2 aout; quelques flocons de neige. Correspondance pour Windhoek. Départ en 4x4 pour notre premier camp, un peu plus au ...
Fun On A Sand Dune
... the Namib Desert. And it was here that we had loads of fun on a sand dune. Soussuelei label the number one highlight of Namibia and quite rightly so. As we drove through the national park, we admired the variety of sand dunes and desert plant life. But ...
Splish Splash
... Kingdom and bigger than Texas. However, the population is only 1.8 million. The landscape changes dramatically once inside Namibia. It is very barren and rocky. The shrubbery and greenery that we have seen on the mountains has ...
Etosha
About halfway into our trip, we got to take some time off and go to Etosha Game Reserve. It looked just like you would expect African savannah to look. There was lots of tall grass, some short trees, and a huge dry salt pan. We just to see just about ...
Visit to the Bushman's paradise!
From the vast grasslands of Etosha we continued on to the desert area that Namibia is known for. We spent the day in the truck (which by now we were all used to) and just before we got to our campsite we stopped at a local school. The kids were waiting ...
Arrival in Namibia
... the road very straight 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 ...
Sossusvlei
Sossusvlei (sosh-us-fly) is one of the highlights of Namibia & it has been on my mind for some time. The area is filled with magnificent red sand dunes that are unshifting. A long, dry river valley is flanked on both sides by massive ...
From the desert to the coast
Leaving Sossusvlei Desert Lodge was hard. The amazingly peaceful atmosphere and the people were missed as soon as we left them. However the charter flight (another 12 seater, pretty much all to ourselves and a fellow guest, Rolf) was the most ...
Oct 18, 2011
Walking In The Sand
... term for “guide”, and our guide in the park is a Japanese woman named Yuri! Imagine that, a Japanese guide in Namibia supposing telling you what the bushman knows. Oh, this is going to be something special. Yuri, it turns ...
A Dramatic Time
... fact, our first visit to Namibia would be dramatic! After our detour through South Africa, we met up with our overlanding group in Namibia's capital of Windhoek. A typical capital, there wasn't much to do, but to drink up big and eat up well. And that is ...
Cheetah Park
... be better? Well Cheetahs aren't better but they are a dang good follow! Welcome to Cheetah Park. A rich rancher in Namibia started a conservation sanctuary for the endangered Cheetah. It's become his hobby. And his hobby have also become his ...
Guest Farm in Namibia
... were 6 and 2 of which I quickly became pals with, nevermind the language barrier). We arrived in the capital of Namibia, Windhoek, after a 21hr bus ride from Cape Town (ugh), then were picked up and brought to Kuzikus (pronounced ...
Exhilarating, Extraordinary Etosha Experience
... this African trip. What was better? The cheetahs at Masai Mara, the lions on the Serengeti Plains or these animals gathering around Etosha's watering hole? Three very different experiences to remember. Now onwards to southern Namibia and the desert ...
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 ...
The highest dunes in the world
This was another very strange place. Sossulsvlei is home to the highest sand dunes in the world, but it looks like something out of an apocalypse. There are dead trees everywhere, and its very eerie. It was interesting to look at though. We climbed one ...
Weirdest Town Of The Tour So Far
Fell asleep on the drive back down the salt road to Swakopmund, named for being at the mouth of the Swakop river apparently. Seems that the town was pretty much built on sand dunes that they just shovelled out of the way, and as the prevailing conditions ...
Lion vs Gemsbok?
We didn't actually see a Lion try to take down a Gemsbok- which is a large type of antelope with long straight horns- but Dave was obsessed with who would win the fight if it occurred. He was sure the gemsbok could do some damage with its ...