Etendeka Mountain Camp Kamanjab

... forth behind a very tall fence infront of a house. After setting up our tents and the truck, we were picked up by a truck and a trailer. The entire bed of the truck was crammed with hilarious German people dressed to impress for the safari. We all piled in the trailer and drove to the house. We were told we could pet the cheetahs and very given very important instructions:<br><br>Do not pet the cheetahs stomach<br>Do not step on the cheetahs tail<br>Do not try and run away from the ...

... Otjitotongwe Cheetah Park is unique from other farms in the region as the farmer has allocated 2,000 acres of the family property to be used for breeding cheetah. Although it&#8217;s not the ideal way to view these animals (through a fence) they do have 2,000 acres and it is rare to get so close to them. We still had an amazing time. We got to pat/touch two fully ...

Hello again... From the coast of Namibia we drove inland through Damaraland - again terrain that would give new meaning to rugged! The mountains, the rocks, the sand stretched for miles and miles. We stopped to buy a few gifts from the local Herero women and carried on through the dry river beds til we reached Twyfelfontein - or Doubtful Springs. Here a local guide took us into the rock strewn valley and showed us ...

... few south african farmhands are about to watch the rugby. Chris joins them and stupidly accepts their grim biltong which is nursed for 80 minutes and then quietly slipped into his pocket. By now Kate's recovering from her virus. Chris starts to notice a small ache under his jaw. This soon escalates until his whole face swells up like a beach ball. Even at the time he could appreciate the funny side but it was agony. Made worse when, whilst breaking off tiny pieces of bread and ...

... women ... After another long hot drive we arrive at a Cheetah reserve with an unpronouncable name .. to our amazement the Africa Adventure truck pulls in about 30 minutes later ... I find myself wondering "What dastardly revenge awaits us ?" ... a little while later we meet them at the bar as we wait to be taken to the Cheetahs ... they are a very nice bunch ... which is good because shortly afterward about 24 of us are piled into back of a Landcruiser with ...

... It did little to capture our attention - perhaps due to the presence of another petrified forest in our neck of the woods, so to speak, or perhaps due to the fact that fossilized remains of wood are just inherently boring. But we were interested in the national plant of Namibia, the Welwitschia, which behaves very much like a cactus, flowering low to the ground, storing water in its deep and extensive root system, and growing at a rather glacial pace of one to ...

... Adrian - Spitting cobra Eddie - Puff Adder Tenae - Black Mamba Anna - Horned Adder Hhhmm... not sure that I will elaborate too much on the derivation of these selections!! You just draw your own conclusions... On our first arvo in Etosha, Black Mamba and I headed out for some game viewing, leaving the boys at the bar watching Ireland vs Scotland... Nice result Scotland by the way... We drove west towards some waterholes ...

... Tenae teaching the kids cartwheels and dancing with them, a 16 year old rebelious gal of the tribe taking a shinning to Adrian and when guessing our ages the girl said that I looked 17 and Eddie looked 39!! After visiting the village we headed back to our campsite, got the fire going and cooked sausages on the braai. We just sitting around chatting after sunset when Tenae and Adrian noticed a scorpian scurring back into the rocks under where we were sitting!! Aaahhhh ...

... tribespeople migrated from the far north Kaokoland region of Namibia, close to the Angolan border, living their traditional way in their village on a farm. We visit the teenage girls in their huts who show us the 3 hour long ritual of cleansing themselves with smoke and putting a mixture of clay from the red earth all over their bodies to protect them from the sun. Ahhh! A grand idea. She also shows us how to use goats skin to adorn her hair, which means she ...

... stepping back centuries in time or indeed into a National Geographic show. The Himbas live simply in huts made from dung and dirt, farming cattle and goats and apart from the tourists who visit sort of regularly, they have little interaction with modern life. There is no electricity and no runnng water. Their clothing, with the exception of some children who had modern clothing, is hand made from animal hides and their jewellery is all hand made from ...