From the Kovango we drove east through the Bwabwata National Park, which was a bit disappointing – no animals, no nice landscape. Just when we reached the Kwando River, we suddenly saw a very big group of elephants in the distance. We chose a community campsite on the river called Kapako Waterfront Camp. Lukas, the …
We were still in the very north of Namibia, driving the B10 along the border to Angola until we reached the Kovango, coming from Angola, crossing Namibia and disappearing into the Okovango Delta in Botswana. We were curious, what we would be able to see along the river, and it was a lot. Our first …
From Ruacana we drove now to the East, stopping at Outapi to admire a giant baobab, and going past Oshakati and Ondangwa, where we did some shopping, before we arrived at the Ongula Village Homestead, a lodge and campsite next to a village of a tribe of the Ovambos, the largest ethnic group in Namibia. …
We wanted to get to the most northern point of Namibia and to the Epupa Falls, even as it was a long drive. The Kunene River is one of the few rivers that carry water all year round in Namibia and has a green lush riverbank with palm trees – something to look forward to, …
In the north of Namibia we were now clearly in the area where the Himba or OvaHimba, indigenous people with an estimated population of about 50,000 people live. We visited a village north of Opuwo, which also has a campsite next to it. A young man picked us up and explained us about the culture of his people, …
We reached Sesfontein, which has an old German fortress and a small village around. As we are now in the Kaokoveld, the area every off-roader dreams about, we had considered if we could do a tour through the most empty part of Namibia. The D3707 would lead from here to Puros and back to Opuwo …
From Twyfelfontain we were travelling on good gravel “pads” up to Palmwag and after wild camping in the wilderness, we continued to the Khowarib Gorge just south of Sesfontain. We found another lovely campsite there and met 2 awesome guys. Just before Palmwag we came to the Veterinary Fence, a measure to prevent the spread …
We stopped first at the rock engravings, an important ancient site in Namibia, and continued later to the area of the petrified forest, where we found a lovely camping before we visited some of the trees at a community site next door. The area of Twyfelfontain has been inhabited for 6,000 years, first by Stone-age hunter-gatherers and …
We were fascinated by the landscape of the Damara land, after coming from the barren coast. Suddenly the landscape was dominated by the golden grass again, with mountains and green river beds. We stopped at this beautiful spot for the view and decided to stay for the night. We had a fire going in the …
We had decided to drive up the coast into the Skeleton National Park to experience the endless coastline with its changing desert landscape and of course to look out for some shipwrecks. The 160 ton fishing vessel called “Winston” ran aground a reef just off the coast during the foggy night of October 17th 1970. …
