Tag Archives: Namibia

August 05

Fish River Canyon, Namibia

Can you imagine driving along a road at night and seeing an oncoming vehicle with something white coming out of one of the windows?  Only to get closer and realise it’s somebody’s bottom and they are pissing! Let’s just say I had refused to pull the car over for one of the Israeli boys to […]

July 29

The Skeleton Coast, Swakopmund and in the end Solitaire, Namibia

Journey through Wild Namibia A story worth reading for those who want to hire a car and drive through the vast desert of Namibia; “So what are we having for dinner then?”  Was the only thing that was said after we inspected the broken hire car.  How could we have crashed the car on this […]

July 26

Sossus Vlei, Namibia

Get Lost in some of the world’s largest sand dunes…. If you are looking for unsupervised exploration, energetic hiking, no other person in sight and all for a reasonable price, then this hot dry sand dune environment is the place for you.  Just remember being lost in the dunes in midday is something you will […]

July 12

Himba People, Namibia

The Himba women and girls cover their hair with clay, creating clay dreadlocks and smear their bodies to protect themselves from the sun and mosquitos.  They wear goat and sheep skins around their waists and cover their bodies in jewellery.  Unfortunately it seems that the tradition is no longer standing for the men, who wear […]

July 12

Etosha National Park, Namibia

Etosha national park totally took me by surprise.  In the North Western corner of Namibia, it is a truly wonderful place to go on safari.  When I visited it was dry season and this meant a great amount of animals were around waterholes therefore very easy to spot all kinds of animals drinking and grazing […]