Swakopmund Travel Blogs

I had hoped the two nights in the hostel in Swakopmund would be a way to make up for some lost sleep. As good as I generally slept while camping, the late nights and early mornings did start to get to me. So I had really hoped a night in a proper bed would do me some good, like it had done in Windh…

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…

I was not without some hesitation to take off with two men I just met and go who knows where for who knows how long.  I do have to thank WV/Ben for encouraging me to do this.  He said it would be a trip of a lifetime and he was right.  We both hung out at Mark’s parents’ hou…

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…

Sesriem to Swakopmund is a 300 km stretch of gravel roads. Well only the last 30km section along the Atlantic Ocean and between Walvis Bay and Swakop is tarred.A large part of the journey is inside the Namib-Naukluft Park so you need a permit if you wish to leave the main gravel road to go explore …

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.

Township Tour.  One of the best I've been on.  I got to: meet the Chief of the Hararo tribe in the Township and ask her quetions about her job (it sounds a bit like being an elected agony aunt); visit an artists wacky pink house (it looked like something I would have designed when I was y…

On 11th September, I started the camping tour through Namibia to Zambia to the Vic Falls. The first day was just driving through South Africa and over the border to Namibia. Our first camping site was just next to the Orange River. It was a really nice site and even had a hot shower. That was a goo…

I'm back from a extreme fantastic internship/holiday in Namibia. I went to work in The Katatura State Hospital in Windhoek (make sure you never get there!) and to see as much as possible from the country. Check my pics!

This beautiful little town was the icing on the cake for me and cemented Namibia as my favourite country that i have visited in africa. It is a tiny town literally caught betweent eh desert and the deep blue sea. You can stand in the road and look one way and see shops leadign down to the coast, lo…

Made it out of Cape Town and South Africa.  We're now in Namibia, we've been  climbing dunes saw the second biggest gourge in the world at Fish River Canyon;  past through Orange River.  We've seen many springbok, ostrich and oriks; we're now sand blasted in Swokopmund. …

Drie nachten Swakopmund. Heerlijk relaxen aan de kust. 's Ochtends is deze toeristische stad bedekt met een deken van mist en we hebben het gewoon koud overdag. Als de mist wegtrekt wordt het fors warmer. We zitten lekker in het zonnetje bij de pier aan zee te genieten op het terras van visrestaura…

We spent three nights in Swakopmund, where the desert meets the ocean, and it was definitely one of the highlights of the trip. If I had the money I could have spent about three weeks there indulging in all of the sports. Saturday morning a bunch of us went sand boarding. It is just like snowboardi…

A 4 weeks journey through Namibia, with a rental 4WD

Still with sleep in my eyes, I hurried downstairs to ask what time it is. I was on time, but my hangover told me to go back to bed. I had to wait another hour, so I tried get fresh with a shower, some breakfast and the last minutes with staring at the sky. And there she was, a beautiful lady: "Are …