Safari Court Windhoek

Destination 360<br><br>km179'238<br><br>After 4 days (and 3 nights, which were very silent in Namibian desert!) traveling in the Namibian Outback to get used of Desert Style Driving, which is not really diifcult on gravelroads in this country, I arrive back to civilization to the capital city Windhoek. <br><br>Here I have to get a vaccination booster for one of those many injections I got in South Africa.<br>

... get paid for doing it. It's ironic because from Penduka you can see Ramatex, a former Malaysian sweatshop. It was closed down a couple years ago due to the employees telling them to give them more money and better working conditions. Unfortunately, companies like Ramatex can easily start business in Namibia because of AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act) which is ...

Petit arret de nuit pour se reposer en effet faire 2200km en 2 jours 9Swakopmund-Windhoek - Cape Town) cela creve. De plus je ne veux pas utiliser le bus international intercap trop cher et on voyage toujours avec les meme personnes. Donc j ai fait la route avec les mini bus ou je suis toujours le seul blanc, puis un peu d auto stop qui est vraiment tres repandu en namibie, puis bus locaux et taxi collectifs.

... process as panic spread through our camp. We had all used one of these 15 electronic safes to store our valuables and cash. Clare and I were relieved not to have lost any of our valuables; laptop, gps, epirb, but soon discovered the robbers had made away with $200 from us and $200 from Tina and Steve. Their entire haul for the night totalled US$3000 and 2000ZAR. Not bad for a nights work. Needless to say the Police were called and an ...

... I realized that terminal wasn't the right word. It was a small parking lot outside of downtown with a few benches and a row of small white vehicles the size of a VW bus. There were already three SAS kids waiting at the bus stop. The way these work are they transport 16 people and don't leave until they are full. So my nine joined their 3 and decided to pay for the additional spaces in order to leave right away and also to avoid random people hopping on our crammed bus ...

... inhabitants speak the native Bantu or KhoeSan language, with its strange clicking sounds. The people are incredibly friendly and I have had several approach me and wish me an enjoyable time in Namibia - that certainly wouldn't happen in London! Windhoek, which literally means "windy corner" is the capital city and is also regarded as the best city in Africa. Architecturally, it displays much of the Germanic influences and there are road named after people such as Nelson Mandela ...

... Klo. 8:00 teimme varsin viisaan paatoksen lopultakin lahtea kotiin, jonne saapuessani sain tehtavekseni vaantaa loppuun ukon firman aikataulusuunnitelman tietokoneella. No, sehan ei ihan valmistunut, ja onnistuin siina kunnossa viela senkin vetamaan vituiksi, ukko kiitteli. Tama siis tasta riennosta, vielakin krapula, mutta koska on perjantai, ei passaa jattaa tanaankaan valiin. On se turistin elama vaikeaa.Huoh.

... Christian televangelist... you know the ones... with the funny nasal accent. This particular program was customized to the South African audience, with references to their country and their problems. It was so bad, it was actually quite funny in places. Then the air conditioning failed. As we drove along the bus got hotter and hotter... the windows don't open and the only source of air are small vents in the ceiling. This kept ...

... lift arrived. I'd said I'd wanted to be at the airport for 5.30pm and the driver announced he had to pick up 2 passengers and my bad. We eventually got to the airport at 6pm and I was a bit worried it was cutting things fine but I need not have worried - the plane was delayed by an hour along with all of the other flights that Air Namibia had scheduled - they're fantastic (not). The flight was uneventful apart from finding myself fascinated by ...

I arrive in sunny Namibia after a 3 hr flight over southern Africa to be greeted by a big, smiling man dressed in safari clothes, just like on TV. He kind of looked like Steve Irwin, only a bit older and with an Afrikaans accent. I slowly start to digest the complex history of the country that I've just befriended. A German colony in 1884, there were thousands of atrocities against local tribespeople, mainly the Bantu speaking Herero people, when they revolted ...