A short drive from Purros
Looking at a map of Namibia can be deceptive for the inexperienced. Even downright misleading. If you look in the north west of the country, in Kaokoland, for example, you will see a little...
Category: Camping , 4×4
Brukkaros – the look-alike volcano that isn’t!
From the national road (the B1) Brukkaros looks like any other ordinary mountain in Namibia. Anyone flying over the massif of Brukkaros, however, could be forgiven for thinking that they were looking down at...
Weekend at Teufelsbach Riverside Campsite
One of the beauties of living in Windhoek is that from any suburb in the city it takes less than ten minutes to be out in the countryside. No need to drive for kilometers...
Chobe National Park – Botswana
In previous blogs we have talked about our wonderful holidays in Botswana, in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and the Central Kalahari, as well as up in the Savuti area. In all these places the...
Bushveld Soap Opera
There’s a Dettol advertisement on TV in South Africa at the moment in which they are marketing a soap dispenser with a sensor that makes the soap squirt out without you having to touch...
Through the Khowarib Schlucht
Our first look at the track running through the Khowarib Schlucht was quite intimidating. We had driven south from Ongongo Campsite, where we had spent the night, and entered the Schlucht at its Western...
Epupa Falls on the Kunene River
For die-hard 4×4 enthusiasts there is a riverside track running from Kunene River Lodge to Epupa Falls. When we initially planned our trip we were hoping to take this route, but we subsequently heard...
Kunene River Lodge
Kunene River Lodge is a short journey of 56 kms from Hippo Pools. When driving on dirt roads it may seem like an advantage having only a short distance like that to cover, but the drive...
Hippo Pools – On the Kunene River
Rob and I have, in the course of our travels, covered most of Namibia during the four years that we have been here. We would be loath to go back to South Africa leaving...
Try camping – Rob’s response
Anyone who read the post “Try camping – it’s much cheaper” and thought that it was about camping and buying stuff for camping missed the point. It’s really about the differences in the way...
Try camping – it’s much cheaper
As you have no doubt gathered, Rob and I are inveterate travelers and will pack a suitcase at the drop of a hat. We’ve been privileged to visit many overseas countries (at great expense...
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