Roy's Camp
Travel Blogs from Rundu
San People in the Bushmanland
We are now in Grootfontein, which is a fairly modern town with internet cafes and coffee shops! I'm on cook duty today so that means I have to go shopping with our cook Charlie and the rest of my cook group shortly! We have stayed two nights in the same camp site which is a bit of a luxury as you don't have to take down the tents and pack …
Etosha Pan
Another early departure at 0730 and we are now headed towards
NE Namibia. We first backtrack to the Etosha pan, which may or may not
(depending on which academic report you believe) be a dried up lake.
Roads are not often tarmaced and roadsigns aren't quite the same as in the UK either! (see photo)
Unfortunately …
San Bushmen visit
Up at 6am in time for our guide, Pete, to arrive. We head off in the already fierce heat (we learn later in the day that it was about 44 degrees in the sun, 38 in the shade) to the 'Living Museum' which has been set up in the bush to show visitors the Bushmen way of life. The Bushmen are on of the indigenous people of southern Africa. They …
Where The Wild Things Are...Just Outside Your Tent
After stay of a few days in Maun, I caught a bus and was finally on my way to Namibia. Instead of doing things the easy way, taking a bus direct to Windhoek and planning from there, I decided to go into Namibia from the north in the Caprivi Strip area. The bus ride trundled up the Okavango panhandle and through some of the hottest, driest landscape …
Small town Namibia
We had a wonderful couple of days in Etosha National Park where we saw lots of game, but after breakfast it was time to leave. The entrance to Etosha was only 12km from the campsite, so after a final look at some giraffe and springbok, we were soon on the main highway heading to Grootfontein.
The travel time for the day was estimated to …