Namibia Travel Blogs

The past six days had been pretty much how I had envisaged Africa: friendly people, stunning landscapes, lots of wildlife. However, as it turned out it was only a teaser of what was yet to come, as we entered the prime destination of our trip: Namibia. The difference with the border crossings betwe…

It was great to be back in Namibia for 2 weeks. Most of my previous visits here had been during the dry winter season (May-October). Now summer is the wet season, when storms generally occur in the afternoons. On this trip, after some good rain, I got the chance to see a very different Namibia. I d…

The Dolphine boottrip. We went up again, but not that urlie as normal and we stayed in a house, so no extra tent removing time. It was pick up time at 8 AM and it was a 30 minute drive to the walebay at Swakopmund. When we arrived we had to wait a litle bit and afther that we went on board. We sha…

I woke up this morning and took my time getting ready. I had the lady at the hotel front desk call a car for me to take to the airport. I left the hotel around 11 am. There is a check station right outside the city, and when we stopped, the guard came over to the window and asked the driver where w…

Yesterday morning we packed up and said goodbye to base camp and being in the bush. We drove 3 1/2 hours back to Swakopmund. It's amazing we all fit in one vehicle. The six of us in the back were so crammed in that we had to sit with our legs between the person across from us, like a jigsaw puzz…

We were supposed to be leaving Chameleon Backpackers at 9am and getting picked up to be taken out to Harnas Wildlife Foundation situated just past Gobabis. There were 7 of us leaving on this day and we were still waiting at 10:20, so we decided to make a phone call to see where our driver was. "I'l…

I used to go quite a lot to Namibia for work. Here are some photos from multiple trips that I made in various parts of the country: Swakopmund/ Walvis Bay, Spitzkoppe, Etosha, Rosh Pinah and Oranjemund.

Well, nothing exciting has really happened since my "week to remember."  I'm back in Windhoek and have just been bumming around town for almost a week now.  I met a guy at the hostel bar who owns a house here in town but is from Jo'burg.  He was going to drive home this week, so I th…

Hey guys,   I don’t have time to write up each day, so this is just a general update. And sorry in advance if I haven’t replied to your emails, half an hour goes really quickly on the Internet!   So, where was I? When I last posted, we were in Cape Town. We left Cape Town on 5 Nov…

Looking back, this was one the highlights during these 3 weeks. When we drove back to Vioolsdrift, the check at the border was a little severe and a 30 minutes later we could carried own way. Welcome in Namibia! Did you thought South Africa was arid. Think again! Everybody was puffing in the truck.…

We rijden vanuit Maun om de Okavango delta naar de Caprivi-strook, een merkwaardig stuk land op de kaart. De grensovergang naar Namibie gaat zeer relaxed. Mijn paspoort begint aardig vol te raken met al de stempels. We horen voor het eerst Afrikaans, een taal zeer verwant aan het Nederlands en heel…

after a 4:30am start and a full days drive with border crossing we were out of the rainy season in Botswana and heading through beautiful rocky desert until we reached the beautiful city of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. I fell in love with this place before we even got to the edge of the city. …

This was another 1 of me and Zayyaans random trips..pack up & go sort!was the best fun ever. The drive was looong but worth it!...got 2 see all the small, interesting, sometimes weird towns on the way:)

Namibia, Botswana and a few days in Zambia and Zimbabwe

Woke up at 4:30am to the sounds of Karl and Odin packing up their stuff and the guys already working on the truck. We got told to stay in bed as the truck wasn't going to be ready anytime soon. That suited me just fine and I slept in til about 6:30am before getting up and having a nice shower. Took…