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Caprivi Strip part 2

We left Mudumu park and continued to Nkasa Rupara National Park , further south, situated along the Kovango River which makes a natural border between Namibia and Botswana. As we wouldn’t make it into...

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Oct 22, 2021

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Caprivi Strip part 1

We arrived at Divungu where it was hot and humid. We decided to visit the Popa waterfalls and split ways: we went to the south side and Gavin and Lee went to the north side to see which side would be ...

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Oct 20, 2021

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Grootfontein and Okavango River

After our amazing week in Etosha , we headed east towards the Caprivi. Actually first south towards Grootfontein and then north again towards Rundu, where we would follow the Cubango River towards Div...

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Oct 15, 2021

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Etosha National Park part 2

The pan Etosha National Park is a game park… so yes… animal spotting is the biggest activity all around. Various waterholes, where animals congregate especially in the dry season, are spread along the...

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Oct 9, 2021

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Etosha National Park part 1

And eventually we arrived in Etosha National Park . We had heard so much about it and were curious about what we would see. We weren’t sure how long we would stay there, so we started off with paying ...

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Oct 6, 2021

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Epupa Falls to Etosha National Park

We woke up to the sounds of rushing water from the Epupa Falls and went for a walk. We walked further down the valley to “the beach” where Stefaan hoped to see a crocodile, but he had no luck. It was ...

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Oct 4, 2021

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Kaokoland part 2

So far we had done better time than anticipated coming up from Puros so we decided that we would like to venture into Marienfluss … even though we realised it would be a return trip because the only o...

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Sep 24, 2021

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Kaokoland part 1

We woke up to a beautiful and quiet morning in the Khorixas riverbed, with the rising sun colouring the gnarled trees a soft morning-orange! We all had some errands to do before undertaking the ...

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Sep 19, 2021

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Rhino tracking and river bashing

So, at the advice of the rangers we met at Doros , we set the alarm at 6 am, snoozed for another 10 minutes, got up and packed up our home and left Doros Crater for the spring. In landscapes like thes...

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Sep 19, 2021

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Twyfelfontein and Doros Crater

After our night stop along the road we drove the last few km’s to Twyfelfontein and got ourselves a guide who took us on an hours walk to see the rock engravings of this World Heritage Site . Seeing t...

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Sep 15, 2021

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Brandberg and Fairy Circles

We left Uis and made camp close to the start of the White Lady hike . We all went exploring a bit around the camp site and found different spoor and tracks: elephant and giraffe being the most promine...

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Sep 13, 2021

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Messum Crater

Where we had turned right off the main coastal road at mile 108 towards the Messum Crater and had found a spot to sleep, Stefaan had seen a Welwitschia, right there on our doorstep. Welwitschia’s are ...

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Sep 10, 2021

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