Beach Lodge Swakopmund

Arrived in Swakopmund, Namibia's premiere beach resort.  Much German architecture here.  Took a look about the township.  Lovely markets down by the beach with wood carvings and such.  Young kids in traditional garb dancing about. Sam ...

... could get the car owners to wake up and move their cars. There are lots of adventure sports to be tackled in Swakopmund like skydiving, bungee jumping and dune buggies, but tackling our seafood platter and buying some clothes was ...

... in contrast to yesterday's Township Tour seeing how 2/3 of the city 48,000 live as that was done in a hot east wind coming off the desert. More contrasts!   Swakopmund being a sea port is renowned for its fish meals! ...

... to the rich. My final blog will be titled something like: "Africa, a Continent of Contrasts". A morning walk north along Swakopmund's waterfront where the sea mist rolled from the Atlantic Ocean to where the houses are locked up by absentee owners. Bit ...

We drove to Swakopmund which was the adventure city in Namibia. We dropped into the activity office and watched a short video of the available activities.  We decided on sandboarding for tomorrow morning but everyone was up for quadbiking this ...

... meal.   After we paid we walked outside only to run into one of our friends who were supposed to be staying at the Beach lodge earlier. After a quick minute of catching up she brought us to a bar where the rest of our crew was hanging out. It was ...

The day after our arrival into Swakopmund a couple of us headed into the dunes for some sandboarding. We certainly got our exercise walking up the dune repeatedly. I had naiivly thought, that they would put us beginners onto a small slope at least to ...

... enough time to find out where we can go tomorrow to find a suitable replacement. Hakuna matata.  There’s the Swakopmund Brauhaus to take away the worry.  We enjoy a weissenbier from a new brewery in Windhoek called Camelthorn ...

... which was once a shallow sea-floor when Africa was joined to Australia. It didn't look much like the moon to me. Swakopmund is a beach resort on the northwest coast of Namibia. It was founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South-West Africa and ...

... his kill, poor seal!  (Dipan's comment:  As Mia so nicely put it, "it's the circle of life!") We arrived in Swakopmund (which means diahorrea to the local language). It's a coastal town, very windy on the beach, and cold water as its the ...

Hello from sunny Swakopmund! So I am sitting in a tiny little internet place (which is also a quadbiking shop...) we are leaving Swakopmund in an hour and a half to get back on the truck and carry on our dusty travels and I can't really even remember ...

... really looking forward to it.  Not sure if we will be able to take pictures or not but should be incredible. Swakopmund is so German.  There are German flags everywhere and the people here speak German, menus are in German....it seems really ...

... town has a lot to offer those desiring some explorationg by foot.  The town is essentially right on the beach and there are several museums (Swakopmund Museum and the National Marine Aquarium) and tons of shops and quaint cafes.  To top it off ...

... we are Afrikaans, German, Namibian, or British; and beer- Taffel and Windhoek are medal winning and proudly made in Namibia from german recipes. After two nights in Cape Cross we take a short drive along the coast to Swakopmund. Carol and ...

... were also a couple of shipwrecks, which had been blown high on to the dunes.  As we got closer to Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, we flew over giant Seal colonies, then clouds of flamingoes close to the Salt Pans.  We landed at Swakop airport which ...

... seeing the animals and fauna plus learning how the bushmen used to live and were eventually wiped out. We made it to Swakopmund - a very german town. Here we have visted a township, visited a AIDS nursery, bought loads of toys and things for the kids - ...

... was a severe lack of car hire supply. But there are many worse places to spend 5 days or so. We stayed in the Swakopmund Lodge which was also the main bar in town. It was only beside a little Italian restaurant called the Neopolitan (or something ...

... ate like a king in Napolotina - the nicest Springbok steak ever - only $65 Nam ($10Nam = 1 euro) . rested for a few days in Swakopmund lodge - mad craic quad biking on the sand dunes - fell off the bike as i was trying to copy our guide who was driving ...

... painting at Brandberg Mountain, but I thought I'd detour for a quick history and biology lesson along the way. About 120km north of Swakopmund is Cape Cross. It is named after the cross erected by the Portugese sailor, Diego Cao. In 1484 this marked the ...

... day for Irina. Every since we left Windhoek she has been looking forward to seeing the Jackass Penguins. She had read that in Swakopmund she could see the Jackass penguins there. But the penguins weren't there, instead we would have had to take a tour ...