Namibia Photo Album

  Click here Posts: Part 1: Namibia in 30 days Part 2: Kgalagadi Tranfrontier National Park Part 3: Kokerboom – Quiver Trees Part 4: Luderitz Part 5: Just as much sand as the Sahara Part 6: Flying over the Skeleton Coast Part 7: Traditional Tribe Part 8: Etosha – The park of white roads

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Traditional Tribe

Epupa from further down the river Epupa Falls Travelling north towards Angola, the temperature started getting warmer and more humid. Epupa is a fair way north which means a very long drive on dirt. There are traditional tribes people up here, the Himba, that smear red dirt on their skin and through their hair – […]

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Flying over the Skeleton Coast

Walvis Baai Walvis Baai/Bay (still pronounced Walfish Bay from a previous name) is on the coast. This a major town by Namibian standards and while the Germans have influenced most places, the British left their mark here. The road out of Sossusvlei was awful for the first few hundred kilometres with lots of corrugations. I’m […]

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Just as much sand as the Sahara

Sossusvlei National Park Road signs out in the desert We left Luderitz after our walking tour, giving ourselves a half day start. Even though we had paid for the night we didn’t see the point in staying any longer. Google gives you approximate times but you don’t really know how long it will take until […]

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Sand Drift

Luderitz The German influence can be seen in these colourful houses I was really looking forward to Luderitz because of the photos we had seen of the nearby ghost town of Kolmanskop. With no-one there to shovel the sand off the road or to close the windows, the sand is slowly taking over the abandoned […]

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Kokerboom – Quiver Trees

Just out of Keetmanshoop is the Quiver Tree forest. There are a couple of trees dotted here and there in other places, but nowhere else is there such a number in one place. They say they were never planted, with the largest trees being between 200-300 years old. The bushmen and Hottentot tribes use to […]

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Namibia in 30 days

Namibia is an African country west of Botswana and South Africa. We first planned this trip back in 2017 but found that most of the campsites were booked out so had to cancel the camper we had paid a deposit on. So this time we started booking the campsites a year out before we booked […]

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