Namushasha Country Lodge Tsumeb

... in Windhoek&#8217;s Alte Feste Museum. On subsequent forays a<br><br>number of cannons, machine-guns and other weapons were retrieved. Many legends surround the lake including the<br><br>favourite myth that Otjikoto and its sister lake Guinas are bottomless. A rare, mouth-breeding species of fish is<br><br>endemic to these two lakes.<br><br>Hoba Meteorite: The largest known meteorite in the world, the Hoba Meteorite, lies in a shallow ...

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.

... lots of humorous comments were made. As there is so much unused land in this country Zambia offered land for farming to the Zimbabwean farmers fleeing their country. Therefore the country is now self sufficient in food production and exports corn and other grains. But still the country is poor, heavily indebted, has a high unemployment and HIV/AIDS infection rate. A lot of children and young people are orphaned. We heard that to become ...

... 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.

... gone mouldy and hard in your refrigerator), Tsumeb almost feels unreal. It is pleasant and inoffensive. Flame trees line carefully laid out streets, the air is clean, and amazingly for Namibia, lawns are green. It almost has a deserted feeling to it. The main street has a cute little collection of local shops, and people happily walk to and fro going about ...

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.

... to eating. Etosha is interesting; it's mostly the normal Namibia landscape, small scrub trees and sand. But in the middle is the Etosha pan, which is a very big, very flat and very dry area, which in extreme flooding, turns into a lake. A cool thing to look out on, hard to capture on film. Next we're heading down to Swakopmund. We've been off the bikes for over a week now; time to get going under our own steam again!

... Namibia would continue to dry out as we headed west. But we went anyway, and the rain didn't seem the bother the animals. In fact, very little bothered the animals, which, big or small, will stand in the middle of the road and look at you, then slowly saunter off, just to let you know who has right-of-way around here. The park is very large, and the self-drive section is just a set of roads with 3 camp-sites. There is no driving after dark ...

... instead of the usual ramshakle, haphazard lines of wood booths, stalls, or just tables we'd seen everywhere else. Can't stop progress I guess, but I was not a fan. Then on to the Caprivi. This is flatness defined. This is straight roads defined. I started measuring sections and got up to about 15km without a single turn or hill. There were signs warning of Elephants, there were signs of elephants (piles of fresh dung), but we saw only one lone elephant for ...