Windhoek Country Club

... planted smack in the middle of nowhere, just waiting for something to happen. Unlike South Africa it seems apartheid has never been totally dismantled here, whites still occupying the downtown as always while blacks live in shantytown suburbs. A resident ex-pat guides me to my hostel and explains the place as we go. Even though the place is neat and orderly, it seems as though crime is still a major problem… at least ...

... for UNAM, Polytech & Windhoek College of Education. The programs will be implemented as of July 6. I am so excited!
By Friday night, I was so stressed out and overwhelmed by all the information I had taken in that week that I honestly just wanted to go home. I was so tired of feeling ****** for being white and American that I would have rather just gone home ...

... This lady, belonging to the Herero tribe and wearing her traditional dress and fancy hat, did not speak much English. She did like peppermint and our Now 50 cd with the song 'I kissed a girl' (not that she knew what it meant though). We found out what animals live in the region by pointing at pictures in the Mammals guidebook. Her name was Julienne. So now you know. Kaokoland was next, an area sometimes described as one of the last true wildernesses on the planet. It was ...

... to take samples from the field in the search for more Gold fields. The coffee was awful, but the experience of sitting and talking to Bianca and her family in their tin house was tremendous. We then took Bianca and her daughter back to Windhoek where they were staying with Bianca's sister before finally heading back to our backpacker for the night. All day the others were on game drive and saw lots of amazing animals in Etosha: rare Black Rhino ...

... the rules now that we were in the fourth quarter and we all decided we could make the capital a fun place to be. So we booked a day safari for later that day and headed to the mall for lunch, get money, and do a little shopping. Before we left we met two Americans (Adam and Ben) who were working in northern Namibia for micro-lenders as volunteers. They were recent grads from the University of Georgia and gave us the tip about the mall. So the group headed out on the street to ...

... almost five hours along a dusty, grovel road to reach Kulala Lodge. On our way we saw the landscape changing from flat plain spotted with scrub bush, grasses and low trees to boulder hills and gravel plains to mountains and finally the red dunes of the Namib Desert. Our guide, Mboto, took us on a detour over a breathtakingly scenic mountain pass. We could see the view across the desert gravel plains to the rugged Naukluft Mountains, which border the northern reaches ...

Last night i had a violent spell of je-ne-sais-quoi and spent the day lying in the tent. I blame it on the salad i had yesterday at Cafe Schneider in Windhoek town. No more raw veg for me, thanks. Tonight Matt went to visit an old highschool friend, Papso, in his home. A Namibian working with NTC, he cooked up ...

Hung around the swimming pool, had Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel, hung around the swimming pool and went back to Joe' Beer Garden for diner. There was not a lot open in the city, so it was easy enough. Even the diner came slowly. But that is OK, Dr T was very chatty. We are leaving tomorrow, to the coast!

... airstrip. When we arrived the pilot was making a few phone calls and it was eventually decided that I would be taken to a local lodge and picked up there. After 20 minutes waiting my driver arrived - it seemed that he had received several calls telling him different airstrips and times to pick me up. Eventually we set off and I had my first sight of some of the mountains (I hadn't been paying attention whilst in the plane) - 3 distinct types and appearing quite small but then I ...