Thuringer Hof Hotel Windhoek

... investment projects (especially in Africa). Zuma, Nujoma, Mugabe and Pohamba suck. While we're on this Earth, if we don't want to get involved in politics that's fine -- but we aren't going to change the world. And that's okay, just do the best with what you got and have a good life. Everyone has SOMETHING to be grateful for. We may have mansions, but they have culture. I think I would rather have the latter.<br><br>Back to the Kandjii's ---<br>My ...

... View Farm.<br><br>Of course I've met loads of other people.  Its just fascinating talking to them, finding out their story which in tern opens your mind, expands your horizons, and just makes you think.  <br><br>OK, so if you are the brave few who have read down this far.  Yes, I've already soon some fantastic animal stuff.  Just look at the video - bloody amazing isn't it?  And, my cell phone now works.  I paid $10 to a web service who emailed me the unlock code.  <br><br>

... in November" he replied. Very sweet. The airport has one terminal, one gate actually. I was happy to leave. In fairness, had there been more life in the city, I might have had a different impression but in my experience as a traveler, I go with my gut, ALWAYS. My gut said "Nu uh, not for you" and I'm going to listen. I arrived in Cape Town after dark and my transfer to my volunteer hostel was waiting for me. The drive into town is just as beautiful at night as it was ...

... atmosphere is no coincidence: both the English and Germans colonized this country and the cool misty mornings here were preferable to the stifling heat of the interior. In fact today, Swakomund is almost solely occupied by the white descendents of these early settlers and those of South African Afrikaan origins. The English built a deep water port at nearby Walvis Bay and a harbour was later made at Swakomund, but strong currents have deposited sand in it and now its ...

... we hit it off right away. Elliot just finished school too and studied environmental management/conservation but doesn't have a job yet. All three of them chatted with each person who joined our group after getting ready learning where they were from and what they were studying, all the usual particulars. It was about this time that Evan realized that he had left his backpack in the trunk of the cab which included all his money, credit cards, passport, camera, and some clothes ...

... an emerging Africa. We had our lunch sitting near Bushman-Caves and then drove off to Etosho National Park. We were very lucky to made to the gate of Etosho at 4.50 pm as the gate closed at 5 pm. We had our bookings in bungalows at Okaukuejo. We finished our dinner and went to floodlit water hole to watch animals coming to drink water. We saw a large group of lions came to drink water followed by elephants and rhinos. Then last came the zebras and antelopes. We ...

... It was interesting to see how the black people live. Windhoek is a really nice city and is quite modern. It doesn't really feel like Africa. But this other part of the city Where the people don't want to live is the name in the local dialect, is completely different. I saw schools in army tents, people cooking on the sidewalk and selling the food (like in Asia), a small market and many houses made of corrugated iron. I wonder where are the ...

... about 3 or 4 hours from Windhoek. That first drive through the Namibian landscape is marked in my memory by a multitude of photo-stops (for trees smothered in weaver birds nests, huge black cricket-type insects, comedy termite mounds) and Martin's sighting of "the largest lizard I've ever seen ... oh, bugger I've just run it over. It just ran across the road ...". A little later we stopped to stretch our legs and take a look around a local ...

... out the window. An as an example of good parenting, her parents gave her a one liter coke just before bed time. Clever!!! After struggeling through the night we came to Windhoek around seven in the morning and started to look for a place to sleep. The first hostel was full, but the next bed and breakfast i called had a large room which was very cheap. We had survied another loooong jouney, and we had only one left before we were back in Stellie.

... and thunder simultaneously - we were getting very worried by it and on Halloween too! Eventually Pascale and I retired to our room where the storm sounded worse because of the tin room and became deafening when some hailstones started raining down too. Pascale had agreed to take Davey and came back drenched when the time came to get him out of his cage.. The baboon cage had been flooded and they were desperate ...