Namibia: Tsumkwe Today was a day of record breakers. First up was the Hoba meterorite just outside Grootfontein. This was discovered by a farmer in 1921 when he noticed something […]
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Etosha National Park & Celebrating Josi’s Birthday
Namibia: Etosha National Park. Approaching the Etosha National Park we were already beginning to see some of the wildlife hanging out around the borders – we wondered whether they were […]
A day in the life: Nystrom Adventures African Overland
Our days vary a lot, as you have seen, but we thought we would put this list together to give you an idea of a typical day… Alarm 6.15 Get […]
Bordering Angola – Epupa Falls & the drive to Etosha
Namibia: Kaokoveld: Epupa Falls, Kunene River, Kamanjab. As dawn broke over our riverside campsite near Epupa Falls, the incessant sound of rushing water which we had heard all night was […]
Himba Tribes & Three Wheel Driving in Kaokoveld
Namibia: Kaokoveld: Van Zyl’s Pass Campsite, Epupa. The road to Etanga started off well and we quickly reached the village where we had planned to camp. But this was a […]
The road North towards Kaokoveld
Namibia: Kaokoveld: Opuwo The route North from Twyfelfontein to Opuwo is a well graded gravel road, blissfully devoid of the 3 inch deep corrugations that had made the main road […]
Rock engravings & Damara tribes
Namibia: Damaraland: Twyfelfontein & Seisfontein Our first port of call heading north was a campsite, *Aabadi Mountain Camp”, just outside the extremely arid town of Twyfelfontein. Here it has not […]
Dawn, Desert & Dunes
Namibia: Sossusvlei We arrived at Sesriem full of excitement to see the much celebrated and photographed desert dunes of Sossusvlei. Sesriem is the gateway to the dunes and we obediently […]
Wild-roads, Wildlife, Wilderness
Namibia: Namib-Naukluft National Park About five kilometres inland from Walvis Bay the C14 deteriorates suddenly from smooth tarmac to the ubiquitous gravel which characterises most of Namibia’s roads. Much of […]
A visit to Crazy Harry
Namibia: Swakopmund While Swakopmund’s coastline may be skeletal, the waistline of most of its residents is not. One of our first observations here is the prodigious appetite of the locals […]
“In to Africa”
Namibia: Walvis Bay to Swakopmund After the debacle of our original attempt to get Tonka onboard the “Atacama” bound for Walvis Bay in Namibia back in July (which ended with […]