Swakopmund Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We were up at 7am on Sunday morning to begin our 56 day overland safari up to Kenya, the first of many very early starts unfortunately. We met up with our bus and hung around for an hour or two as people arrived in dribs and drabs, apparently not everyone had been given the correct time of departure. We finally set off around 10am and quickly le...

After the rude awakening from the wind, the chance to get to our hotel (yes, hotel!) in Swakopmund, have breakfast/addictive hot beverages of choice and have a shower would be extremely welcome. So to be dropped for a presentation on what activities were on offer was already a bit of a blow, compounded by having the worst public speaker in the w...

Skydiving at Swakopmund After the centurion challenge fo the night before more sore heads were present this morning but after a good breakfast a lot of us were feeling fine. We got driving to the airfield and a brief safety talk and we got driven to the airstrip in the middle of the dessert which makes it a lot cheaper aparently?

We have travelled some miles these last few days. We have travelled up through SA to Namibia. We did'nt do alot whilst travelling up through SA. We did stay at a camp at a Vine Yard so it was only polite that we sampled some of their produce. Very nice. We are camping out in tents which is great fun but the nights are still realy cold. We're get...

Swakopmund is a rather strange town, where not much is going on. It is right in the middle of the desert, surrounded on 3 sides by sand and one side by sand. We had four days there, which I didn't really understand because there is not all that much to do. While I was there I did some quadbiking in the desert, and some sandboarding. I ended up w...

Hello, All done! Fantastic! Dived from 15,000 feet. I was the first customer ever to sign up to jump from that height - they only got a new aircraft last week, which allowed them to go to that height. A full minute free-fall!!! Wow. Enjoy photo. I'll bring the DVD home. That's it for the Blog folks; I'm off to explore. If you'd like more info, e...

Wow...Etosha was amazing. We were able to drive our big yellow truck through the park and boy did we stand out. Every time we came to a view point, all the other cars would leave. Suited us better as we were able to get the great spots. The park was so dry that most of the animals stayed around the watering holes so they were easy to spot. The e...

Today we decided to do the famous 'Welwitschia Drive' it is in the northern corner of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, and you have to get a permit to drive there. There were 13 numbered beacons to follow but it was a fair drive from Swakopmund before you saw anything of interest. The first beacon is the Lichen field you have to look incredibly...

Ahhhh la mer! Que ce soit en Normandie ou en Namibie, vue d'en haut ou vue d'en bas, elle me renvoie toujours aux vacances d'été quand je n'étais qu'un petit garçon. Les châteaux de sables ici peuvent plus gros que dans mon enfance, c'est tout. Swakopmund est une petite ville balnéaire qui a définitivement des allures germaniques. Ça fait tout d...

Tonight is our last night of 4 in the city of Swakopmund. This town is the adrenaline capital of Namibia. On the first day, we went quad biking on the dunes south of the city. This involved riding the 4 wheel ATVs up & down some super steep sand dunes. Luckily, nobody flipped, but I did manage to get stuck in the sand a couple times. On day two,...