Swakopmund Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

John:

ok this was cool. we jumped on a 6 seater, single prop plan and flew over sand mountains, skeletons of ship wrecks, thousands of seals and 300 ft dunes dropping straight down to the breaking waves. once in "swakop" we toured this historic german seaside town, went to the Fouries beautiful seaside home and checked out the local musea...

We passed through more of the Namib desert, crossing the Tropic of Capricorn on our way to Swakopmund. Again, the endless vistas are strangely compelling and almost hypnotic in their stretch toward infinity... We lunched in Walvis Bay, once a strategically important port for South Africa, but now under Namibian rule. The flamingos that often con...

I had the opportunity to visit Namibia for business and pleasure in February 2008. More details to come as I get used to my first entry on TravelBlog

Ok, not sure where all i left off and i don't have a lot of time so i will go back a few days. First there are a great bunch of people on my tour with me and we are having a blast. The days are so filled with so many new and cool things. I know I'm missing a bunch here as it's hard to think of them all while sitting here. I must start making a l...

2nd October saw a lazy start, as we had breakfast provided by the hostel and we didn't have to be at the info place until 9am...bliss! When presented with all the options of activities available in Swakopmund, we decided to split and do different things. Anita, Belinda, Laura and I decided to do an hour on the Quad Bikes and an afternoon of Livi...

Good Afternoon!! We arrived into Swakopmund at 12:30pm on Friday (9/15) after viewing the seals for an hour. While in Swakopmund, we were staying in dorms rather than our tents for the next three nights. Having a bed was a welcome change from the ground and a sleeping bag. Once we were checked in, we went to a room of the hotel to watch a video ...

We had adopted a young leopard called Mick through Africat and Meldon offered to take us to see him before we left Okonjima. We went down to his enclosure as he was a leopard that unfortunately would never be able to go back in the wild. We passed many other cheetahs and leopards many of whom had been orphaned. Mick was lovely but seemed relucta...

We woke at 7am so we could leave by 8am. As it had rained all night, packing the tent away was a bit yuck. However, we had some nice jungle oats and coffee around the fire for breakfast. Then, we left our lovely camp-site for Swakopmund. We stopped at Solitaire- Namibia's smallest town. We all had delicious apple pie and coffee. Apparently a lot...

"......don't listen to him, you belong here in Africa, where you can run wild". This was Kay's (of Big Dave and Kay fame) contribution to Botswanan/Australian relations. Just for the record, she was talking to a 35 year old man of the River Bushmen tribe (not an infant). To be fair, she couldn't have brought the tone or content of the conversati...

We had a 4.30 start this morning and drove to Cape Cross to see the seal colony. I could actually smell it before you saw it. It reeked. There were literally thousands upon thousands of seals all lazing on the rocks and beach, soaking of the warmth of the sun. There were bull seals fighting for territory and cows (female seals) recently given bi...