After a long drive across the featureless Namib desert we arrived at Sesriem and my favourite campsite where we drank warm beer and played the locals on a dilapidated pool table long into the evening. The next day we got up early to walk over dune 44 to Dead Vlei, a clay pan near the [...]
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A perfect day out – Swakopmund, Namibia
Three days drive via a petrified forest and Cape Cross seal colony (120,000 seals in one place stinks) to the resort of Swakopmund – a bit like Benidorm for Germans Spent the morning sea fishing off a boat – caught mostly inedible crayfish, but also a few bream, including a massive one that got away… [...]
Etosha National Park – Etosha, Namibia
Two days in the Etosha National Park with more game viewing – saw the usual, plus Gemsbok, Springbok, Jackal and Wildebeest. Also saw a lion chasing a giraffe. Not sure I wanted to see it getting ripped to shreds, but it managed to get away. Highlight was getting a glimpse of a rare Black Rhino. [...]
The “Funky Camp” – Ngepi, Namibia
Two days driving got us to Namibia and the long promised “funky camp” at Ngepi. It had a lot of quirky features such as outside toilets and a swimming cage in the Okavango river without getting attacked by the ever present hippos. Later in the evening we went for a walk into the local tribal [...]
