Swakopmund, Namibia Travel Blogs

Last night in Swokopmund
Oct 14, 2003 (5 photos)

Swokopmund beach was lovely, we went to the local museums and saw loads of old stuff. Stuart ate the local lighthouse (its a burger - look at the picture!) The weather was lovely and I got burnt shoulders! Also, on our last night we saw the most ...

I'm flying without wings
May 12, 2006

... the seein front of us and the special lighting affects on on the dunes behind us. The whole experience made my stay in Swakopmund the most memorable and I really really enjoyed it. I'm starting to wonder if Africa would be a nice place to settle. I'm ...

Taalta sita tulee- TURISTIPORNOA
May 27, 2008 (4 photos)

Joo-o, eli kikkailtiin rannikolle... Kahtelemaan meininkeja. Ei oltu kun pari paivaa, mutta hubaa oli... En jaksa kirjottaa enempaa kun ei ketaan kiinnosta kumminkaan.

We're all going on a summer holiday
May 11, 2006

... was amzing to see how many of them had concentrated in that zone. This cape is in the middle of the Skeleton coast of Namibia and was discovered by a Portuguese sailor who touch Africa at that point. The coast is baren and is called the skeleton coast ...

Swokopmund for a few days!
Oct 11, 2003

We spent a few days in Swokopmund, it is a lovely village - feels like you are in a little German town....

sand, sand and more sand
Jun 24, 2007 (6 photos)

Ive spent four days in Swakopmund now, its a German style town on the edge of the Namib Desert, it doesnt feel very remote or african though, and sometimes its easy to forget that you are not in Europe. Have really enjoyed the experience though and the ...

Stink City ... !!
Apr 25, 2005 (5 photos)

Without doubt one of the smelliest places I've ever been on earth !! There are around 10,000 seals here at any one time, and bloody hell - they're not too hot on the old hygiene. I didn't retch, but came close to it and could smell them for about an ...

Cape Cross Seals
Oct 13, 2003 (4 photos)

We went to Cape Cross today to see the seals..... my goodness, they smell.... and they are very loud! We saw a jackal try and kill the baby seals, but the big daddy seal beat him off - it was very interesting to watch! Once again - they smelt of ...

Swakopmund
Apr 22, 2005 (6 photos)

The first weekend of the overland tour was spent in this town on the west of Namibia... Nambia has a fairly major German influence so it was a bit weird to see german architecture contrasting with the vast desert which covers vitually the whole country ( ...

Three days at Swakopmund
Mar 18, 2006 (7 photos)

We had a few days to relax here. It's a strange place, a picture-postcard German town in the middle of the desert. It was lovely to potter around town and make the most of the availability of fresh coffee and cakes. One afternoon I went on a walk out ...

Brad and Angelina
Apr 22, 2006 (15 photos)

... they were covered in beautiful shades of green and had spectacular castle-like mountains in the background. Our next stop was Swakopmund, and we have discovered that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are also somewhere in this small town. Many girls have ...

burning sand and frozen toes..
Nov 12, 2009

Hi We've had two days in Swakopmund "the adrenaline capital of Namibia" apparently.  There are tonnes of things on offer but I decided to go for the Sandboarding a group of us did it - Its a snow board on sand dunes. they split us into groups who had ...

Yah, right - ees good.
Sep 16, 2006 (9 photos)

... sure to let the girls know when they should get their sweet tongues back in line... ;-) After the desert, we headed into Swakopmund for a couple of days of R&R (a real bed!) and some adventures - yesterday a few of us went tandem skydiving (wow!!! it ...

Swakopmund on the coast
Jul 21, 2006 (11 photos)

... , so you get to see these animals really close-up. There is a much larger colony at Cape Cross Seal Reserve 100km or so North of Swakopmund. Here,there can be up to a quarter of a million or so seals but it is a long drive and apparently the smell of fish ...

Namibian Desert
Mar 26, 2009 (16 photos)

... the game and caught up with the truck again in Swakopmund. No need to say anything about the rugby, only it was awesome. Swakopmund was where we done a sky dive over the namib desert. 10,000ft, free falling for 30 seconds. we both nearly cried going up ...

Welwitschia Drive, Swakopmund
Jul 23, 2006 (9 photos)

... babies - it was an incredible sight to see them all running along, before they quickly disappeared into the mountains. Sunday in Swakopmund meant that most things were closed except for the odd tourist shop. We drove around looking at parts of the town ...

Down to Swakopmund
Jul 20, 2006 (5 photos)

... to everyone at Okonjima, it had been such an amazing experience and got back into our 4X4 for the long trip down to Swakopmund. Roads in Namibia tend to be incredibly straight, a means to an end and this was no exception. It was also very boring just ...

Swakopmund
Dec 23, 2006

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To the Coast
Jan 24, 2007

... so luxurious after this!  The next day we had a "briefing" and then a tour of different areas of Swakopmund, everywhere from the poorer informal settlements to the extravagant multi-million dollar summer homes of the fabulously wealthy.  We had ...

Living Desert and Quad Biking, Swakopmund
Jul 22, 2006 (17 photos)

... my favourite shop under the Tug restaurant. What I liked about this curio shop was that it actually sold wares from Namibia - a rare thing. I bought a couple of lovely bracelets and a genuine Bushmen Bag decorated in beads. That evening we ate in The ...

Stunning Namibia
Jul 3, 2008 (14 photos)

... can see, perfectly formed and such a surreal landscape...wait for the photo's!!! From Sesriem we headed to Swakopmund - the 'adventure capital of Namibia"...what it actually is is a tiny little coastal town that should be called little Germany. All ...

Onwards in the Albino Penguin
Aug 26, 2009 (12 photos)

... conversation in our Nightcap Night...) and drove to our camp. A Bush Camp... in caves! (our Flintstones Camp). We arrived in Swakopmund yesterday and a group of us beelined it for skydiving. THAT WAS AMAZING! I was in the last group of us to go ...

Sand, sand dunes and more sand
Sep 21, 2008 (20 photos)

The day after our arrival into Swakopmund a couple of us headed into the dunes for some sandboarding. We certainly got our exercise walking up the dune repeatedly. I had naiivly thought, that they would put us beginners onto a small slope at least to start ...

Swakopmund
Jan 25, 2008

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And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas..
Dec 24, 2009

... blog entry is going to be very short, because unfortunately I have broken my wrist sandboarding down a massive sand dune here in Namibia. I am ok though, and even got to go to the hospital where Angelina Jolie had Shiloh. I figure if it's good enough for ...

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Aug 2, 2007

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PGL - Desert style!!!
Aug 27, 2009

Today I thought I'd finally finish sand dunes - having climbed them for sunset and sunrise, camped in them and taken so many photos! The only things left were quad biking and sand boarding!! So I ticked them off my list today, the quad biking was really ...

To be extreme
Nov 25, 2001 (21 photos)

The past couple of days has been fantastic. It was nice to have some creature comforts too. One day we headed out to go sandboarding up in the dunes. Wizzing down sandunes on a masonite board is wicked. The hardest things was though....walking back up. ...

Swakopmund
Jan 26, 2008 (5 photos)

Hi All, Long time since I put anything on this, but I have been flat out.  On the road now for 5 months and loving it still.  Heading back north to Nairobi now - apparently it is still safe for us to still head in there, but I will stay ...

Pongy Seal Colony
Nov 23, 2001 (7 photos)

... baby seals die, when the bull seal, rolls on top of it and squashes it. Apart from the smell it was great. Onto Swakopmund, a German town, which is renowned for extreme sports. The town is situated near the coast with sand dunes and when the wind blows it ...