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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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Dead Sea Swimhole and Cape Cross Seals

We eventually left foggy Henties and the ocean behind and headed towards the desert. We have figured out already that, no matter where we go, signage in is not always what we expect. We had calculated...

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Sep 10, 2021

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Spitzkoppe

After saying our goodbyes and MeWeAh to the San group, we headed out towards Spitzkoppe , an epic mountain in Namibia. We parked under a tree some 6km away from the Spitzkoppe National Park and enjoye...

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Sep 7, 2021

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Erongo Mountains

After our cattle grid sleepover when we had left Windhoek , we took it slow… real slow: slow wake-up, slow cup of coffee, slow packing up. And… we continued on the dust road over the endless yellow hi...

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Sep 5, 2021

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