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African shoestrings – Namibia Day Seventy four – Windhoek
Spitkoppe is an attractively shaped mountain on the main drag between Swako and Windhoek (we were now heading back to […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Seventy Two – Swakopmund
Our final day in Swako was actually spent in Walvis Bay, a small town, 30 kilometres south. We checked out […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Seventy One – Swakopmund
Everybody (that is mainly the white population) was friendly and seemed to have either German or Afrikaans accents. Wilma our […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Seventy – Swakopmund
Hentiesbaai is another fishing spot but it does have a sort of quaint character, (compared to Terrace Bay everything has […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Sixty nine – Hentiesbaai
Terrace Bay is desert, black stone beaches and a grey sick looking ocean that yielded an endless abundance of fish. This […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Sixty – Windhoek
We got our liquid back in the bar when we got back after cooling the bodies in the cool water […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty nine – Namib desert
Sunup was at 6.30 am and we were first in line at the gate for the 4.45 opening except they […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty eight – Namib desert
The Desert is inhospitable place when it’s sunny & hot, when it’s raining and windy and still hot it’s pretty […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty seven – Namib desert
We had actually booked a campsite for the next day but took a chance that they had a vacancy for […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty nine – Namib desert
Civilization is the Sesriem campsite, located on the Namib Naukluft National Park boundary. We had already worked out that if, […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty four – Windhoek
Strangely enough the train actually got into Windhoek at 6.15 am, on time! We had managed to sleep a little […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty three – Luderitz
Diamonds were discovered around Luderitz relatively late in 1908. The Orange River and some of the islands off the coast […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty two – Luderitz
Luderitz is the arsehole of the world! I’m sorry, I know that there are plenty of people who live there […]
African shoestrings – Namibia Day Fifty one – Keetmanshoop
Alfred and Bridgett gave us a lift back to Keetmanshoop, where we met up with Riet again in her B&B. […]
