Etosha Aoba Lodge Tsumeb

... facinating and exotic places around the world, but never have I / we experienced such immediate sense of community, family and joy as we have on these next two days. The San people of Namibia are truly unique. They immediately embraced us. We were not observers of their village, but rather distant kin joining in on their celebrations, dances, games and survival.<br>The pictures only begin to tell the story, but sorry that is all I have time for ...

Destination 362<br><br>km180'053<br><br>From Etosha N.P. I am at the point to move from the western side to the eastern side of Africa. This was involving another gravel road to take, where I have seen first traditional huts of bushmen. I will head west driving along the "panhandle" of Namibia.

... 1200m. We found the main roads were good, well sign posted. If the road was bad and full of potholes is was already under construction to be rebuilt by the Chinese. We spent two nights at Croc Valley Camp on the Luangwa River, visited the South Luangwa National Park twice on game drives, seeing many elephants, crocodiles, a family of lions (mother and two 3-4months old cubs) and hippos. Hippos and elephants came very close to the camp ...

... Maman/Granny, comme vous devez le savoir nous sommes maintenant en Namibie. Nous allons faire une excursion dans Etosha National Park - notre derniere chance de voir des animaux sauvages en Afrique - cet apres midi. Ensuite nous nous dirigerons sur les bonnes routes Namibiennes vers le sud le long de la cote Atlantique. Notre prochaine etape sera Swakopmund, ou nous aurons peut etre la chance de voir des phoques! Avez vous recu mes cartes postales? Gros bisous

Namutoni and Halali campsites...driving between the sites was a wild zoo of African animals. I think we saw everything but Leopards! The salt pan is a vast dry area during the dry season (you'll see in the picture). During the rainy season, it turns into a salt lake.

If you've ever seen Norman Rockwell's paintings and illustrations, you know he painted an America in the 1940's and 1950's that was so idyllic, so "Golden Age"-ish that you have to wonder if it was ever like that. Well, if Norman Rockwell had been African, he might have come up with Tsumeb. Despite an unfortunate name (sounds like some gelatine desert that ...

Volgende stop die Otjikoto meer. Ek wou graag by 'n lodge langs die pad gestop het om net 'n drankie te drink, maar ons moet voor sononder binne die panne wees. Die vissies sien jy swem in die water, so die water is helder. Daar sien ek ook 'n vlakvark met die grootste tande ooit. Ons neem 'n paar fotos en val weer in die pad. Etosha wag.

Greetings from Tsumeb! We just got back from visiting Etosha National Park. The pictures tell most of the story, lots of animals. It does take a bit of patience to sit in a car and drive around to see where the animals might be. We were surprised at the lack of park rangers at any of the campgrounds or tourist centers. Mostly they just took your money and showed you were the campsite was. Regardless we got to see a ...

Greetings from Tsumeb again! We're back from the Etosha Pan National Park with a few bazillian pictures having seen most of what we were looking for, except a rhino. The park is set up in two halves; on the east, it's all self-drive, on the west, it's only by guided safari through specific lodges. Being budget travelers, we're naturally on the east side. We rented the cheapest car we could find, which turned out to be a VW golf. It's a cute ...

It's been some time since the last computer access. Only a little over a week in real time, feels like a lot more. We've crossed the mighty Caprivi - the long finger of Namibia where it reaches out to touch the Zambezi river, dropped into Botswana, land of the donkey and, more to the point, the Okavango delta, and then, since the landscape had reached the level of 'abysmally dull' and the end of may is now lurking as a darkening shadow on the calendar, we ...