Oranjemund Vacations, Oranjemund Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

In the SouthWest corner of Namibia, along the Atlantic Ocean between Luderitz and Oranjemund is a vast forbidden zone where only the miners are allowed to enter: the Sperregebiet diamond region which covers 26,000 sq.km. Similar but smaller zones exist to the South, in South Africa. This is about to change to become one of the world's last and largest wilderness areas: the Namib Transfrontier Park that will extend along more than 2000 km from South Africa to Angola. An agreement to initiate …

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.

Two nights here and my biggest fear is realised scorpions!!! I have to admit that I haven't seen one all trip (and I dont see any here either) but I am aware fo them and the fact that they like nice snug warm places. As far as I can tell that describes my sleeping bag to a T! As such I stead Aarons jumper (note not my jumper partly because I dont want to ruin anything of mine and partly because it was the closest thing to hand) and i shove it in the hole in the tent so that they cant creap in…