Swakopmund Guest House

... nbsp; (He said: take the above statement about the lack of police in Swakopmund and multiply it by 2 for Windhoek - a warning at the guest house we stayed at stated that we shouldn't carry anything with us for fear of being viewed as a tourist - which if ...

... so he took us to the backpacker he stayed before, called Desert Sky Backpacker. It is called backpacker but it was actually like a guest house. Nick and us wanted to stay in a dorm but no bed was available so we stayed in a private room together as the ...

We spent last night in a guest house in Swakopmund, and very comfortable it is as well. We had a great shower and sent all our clothes off to the laundry just over the road from where we are staying. Yesterday evening we all went out to a restaurant on ...

... of what to eat!  The dinner took three hours, though, and afterward I was quite content to hang out at our guest house place.  Our accomadations were about the level of the CGE house...beds, bathrooms and everything necessary but nothing ...

... to visit a huge seal colony, there were thousands of them and boy did they stink, Poooo! After that we went to our guest house at Swakopmund, yes that's right a guest house we are not in the tent tonight, we have a real bed and someone to cook breakfast ...

... because it's too high. I decided to put these concerns on the backburner and played with a little girl named Tatiana at the guest house (she was the owner's granddaughter). We had fun playing with her new ball, and she seemed to really enjoy learning new ...

... Peggy was with my jump lift with someone from a Nomad overland truck.  The flight up gave us 20mins to look out over Swakopmund, the dunes to the south and strangely enough a golf course in the middle of the desert.  You can see the mountains ...

... maybe because of it, this is to date one of our favorite places on earth. We have spent the last few leisurely days in Swakopmund, a bizarre blend of Bavaria-meets-Cote d'Azur, at the edge of a vast dune-filled desert. We have strolled the palm-lined ...

... ask the farmers I met how they reconciled the fact that they originally obtained their African land in the the same forceful manner. As their guest and them being so generous, it just didn't seem the right thing to do.   ...

Gobabis is a quiet little town in 'Cattle Country'.  We overnight at Eddie's Guest House.  Great BBQ with beers and mugs so cold, one came out frozen....well - one soldier down isn't too bad.  We venture out to Arhmen Caves.  120 ...

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... Route. We decided we'd come straight here and work our way back to Cape Town. We got a room at the Abalone Guest House, on the beach, east of Plettenbergbaii near the town of Keurboomstrand. We came here because the little free tourist information ...

... road. We found she was right as we dodged a kudu and two large antelopes in first fifteen minutes. Our night stay was at Rivendell Guest House. Next day we drove almost five hours along a dusty, grovel road to reach Kulala Lodge. On our way we saw the ...

... entry because I couldn't seem to figure out a way to Sossusvlei or Fish River Canyon. Well, while waiting around at the guest house, I met three Japanese travelers who were also looking to get to those locations. I immediately offered them a ride in the ...

... I thought I would go to Swakopmund, a German city on the coast, but I got mixed reviews about the place from several people that I had spoken to at the guest house. I decided, then, that I would get on the bus tomorrow evening and head for South ...