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Swakopmund Slideshow
Swakopmund
Travel Blogs from Swakopmund, Namibia
I've been through the desert on a bike with noname
... 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 ...
Swakopmund Namibia Adventures!
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 ...
Etosha National Park
Hello Everyone! A bloody hot day today in Namibia. We have just pulled into Outjo, a small town, en route for the Cheetah Park later this afternoon. We have spent the last 2 nights in Etosha National Park - one of the last great wilderness areas in ...
Not as shitty as it sounds
... in Swakopmund, where we could leisurely bid adieu to our travel companions and wander around this strange German outpost. Swakopmund was founded as a German colonial center right on the Swakop River where it pours out into the Atlantic. ...
Beds!!!
... least as close as I can get. Walked on the moonscape of Namibia. Crossed the tropic of capicorn. Amazing hamburgers for lunch. A frame cabins with beds for a quick change in Swakopmund Restcamp. Lovely. Out for dinner at Napolitana then to a house ...
Searching for adrenaline
... What a shock that your double is not very nice and seems selfish and judgemental and frivolous and illogical." Welcome to Swakopmund, sponsored by Namibia Breweries, the sign read as a town emerged before us in the middle of the desert. It was weird ...
Desert
04/10/09 Sossusviei, Solitaire. 360 ks The sand dunes in Sossusviei are amazing. Pink in colour, and all around you. I walked half way up one and the view was as if you were standing on the moon, only pink.. That night we stayed in Solitaire and ...
Totally Extreme
... Cao who placed a stone cross here in 1485. Driving parallel to the coast we moved south until we arrived at Swakopmund, Namibia's recreation mecca. There is an amazing number of activities to choose from here but the two at the top of my ...
Skeleton Coast
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 ...
Food, Fraud, and Fish River Canyon
... for a while. Even despite our regular pit stops at various somewhat third world supermarkets along the way to buy food supplies. Swakopmund was a very western town, our first taste of 'civilization’ as we knew it for some time. ...
Botswana and Namibia so far
... was informed that the Manc twats had robbed us on pens. We decided to leave Spitzkoppe a day early so we could get to Swakopmund sooner. This is the adrenaline junkie capital of Africa and also has loads of bars, etc. Last night we got pretty pissed ...
Night on a rock
... in the late afternoon after almost a full day of driving through nothing-ness. You soon get to appreciate how underpopulated Namibia is - there's hardly anyone there. Our camp for the night was in an outcrop of rocks called Spitzkoppe. ...
Week 1 of Safari
... ! at sunset watching the mountains change colour! bliss! next stop orange river the south african side, but the obligatory illegal entry to namibia on the other side was achieved with a short swim over! that stamp was not included in my passport! but i ...
Nature drive in the desert
Matthew and I left the boat today, and the first thing we saw was some playful seal right next to the boat (about 5 feet from where we were standing) on the starboard side. One little guy even smiled at me when I said hi. We went via 4x4 on a ...
Day 1 - 5 of Overland; Cape Town to Swakopmund
... Way was clearly visible and we could also spot the satellites tracking across the sky. Thursday 29th January - Swakopmund, via Lie in!, Walvis Bay Flamingos Finally the pace slowed today and we were afforded a lie in until ...
Swakopmund
... the next couple of nights we were again afforded the luxury of a bed - this time in Swakopmund the adventure capital of Namibia. Swakopmund is on the coast and is surrounded by massive sand dunes. It is supposed to be a real tourist town but ...
First week of the adventure
... quite far inland. There must be something that just makes all the moisture from the ocean dry up right away. Since Swakopmund is world-renowned as an adrenaline capital, we decided to go sandboarding this morning. It was actually lots of fun, ...
On holiday!!
And now... just relax... some final planning to do before I leave for Dar Es Salam next ...
Day 173 - Namibia, Swakopmund - Quad Biking
... 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 ...
Day 175 - Namibia, Swakopmund - Hugging Seals
... 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!! ...
Desert Bushcamp and Seal Colony
... and asked if we wanted to put the sides back down. We enthusiastically took him up on the offer. We soon reached Seal Colony around 11am and watched them lounge on the beach for about an hour. We then headed off to Swakopmund!! - Jeremy and ...
Stalking Leopards & Cranking Sand At 73kph!
... boulders and exploring the park before camping out under a huge canopy of stars. From there, it was on to Swakopmund where we are now. Swakopmund is probably the most developed place we have been to in the last two months and Stef ...
Sand boarding in Namib Desert
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 ...
Etosha and Swakopmund
... to watch but they knew we were there especially the rhino's as at one point they starred at us for 1/2 an hr. Have been Swakopmund for the past 3 days and it's been a busy 3 days. Spent no more than 1/2 an hour at the seal colony as it ...
Stiltz....
... ! (We are doing quad biking this afternoon). Great fun and once agin terrific experience in the middle of the desert 5km from Swakopmund. Quadbiking Desert explorers - Wils came with me. Blowy and neaded iff into desert. Biked fast and up and down dunes. ...
Sandboarding and Dune quad biking..!!
... ! (We are doing quad biking this afternoon). Great fun and once agin terrific experience in the middle of the desert 5km from Swakopmund. Quadbiking Desert explorers - Wils came with me. Blowy and neaded iff into desert. Biked fast and up and down dunes. ...
Sandboarding
Helo all! Just wanted to give you a little update about our day of sandboarding and dune sledding!!! We got to the dunes and it was a bit cloudy but that quickly disapeared and turned into a perfect 30 degree day. We got given snowboards and boots ...
Sleepy Swak
After rolling around in the desert sands, we headed north again for the coastal town of Swakopmund. We stayed here two nights, preparing ourselves for the drive up the Skeleton Coast. This is a sleepy town but we found a fun bar to hang out in and ate at ...