At the Waterberg National Park, we shared our campsite (and accidentally our food) with numerous baboons, but we came here to climb the cliffs of the Waterberg and enjoy the view from the top. We didn’t even see them coming, had they already stolen a bag of apples from the inside of the pickup. The …
After tackling some gravel roads again, the common type of roads in Namibia, we reached the Otjihaenamaparero farm in the Kalkveld region. From the campsite it was a short walk to the petrified footprints of some therapods. Approx. 200 million years ago, the dinosaurs left their footprints in the sand, and some crazy circumstances allow …
When we left the Düsternbrook Farm, we had our first encounter with the elegant giraffes – a good start for our tour together with our son through Namibia! We are now on the way to the dinosaurs – more on our next post!
After leaving Windhoek again, we stopped just 1 hour north, at the Düsternbrook Farm, where we had a campsite next to the riverbed and went on a “game drive” to watch them feed their cats, which life in an enclosure on the farm. First, they place some pieces of meet on a tree, that the …
On the way from Swakopmund to Windhoek, we stopped at the Erongo Mountains to visit the granite boulders at the Ameib farm and also have a look at some rock paintings at Philipp’s Cave. The farm has a campsite, so we stayed there for 2 nights. If you can, book their special bush camp between …
From the Kuiseb River we made our way north, past the Ganab waterhole to the Blutkuppe. The drive had some good and some bad parts, with corrugated pads and sandy river crossings. At the Blutkuppe we chose camp site no. 8, which was the last in the north before the deep sand started, something we …
From Sesriem we continued past Solitaire and crossed the Kuiseb River before we turned off the main road into the desert. Our destination were Mirabib and Homeb south of the C14 and later the Blutkuppe further north. Mirabib is an island mountain, where simple campsites are provided around the granite rock. The road to get …
From Aus we drove North taking the D707, which led us along the border to the Namib-Naukluft NP. We stopped at the Koiimasis Farm for 2 nights, before we continued past Betta to Sesriem, where we had to get our permit for the Namib desert. From the Koiimasis farm gate it were another 20 km …
Ten kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz lies Kolmannskuppe, a ghost town in the Namib desert, once a small but very rich mining village, until no diamonds were found here any more. In 1908, in what was then German South-West Africa, the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while clearing the railway tracks from sand. Soon after, German miners began to exploit …
From Aus, it is a long drive through the desert until you reach the coast and the little town of Lüderitz. After we had stopped at the Garub Pan to look for feral horses, it was mostly sand we saw, until the first houses came into sight. South of the road it is diamond country …
