Category: Namibia
Southern Africa – Day 36 – Mowani Mountain Campsite, Namibia
We had a sleep in this morning…yay. David had a few issues with getting the donkey boiler to start – damm wood wouldn’t keep a light! This is strange because we have found the wood from the Mowani tree to be excellent firewood, that seems to burn forever. We travelledRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 35 – Opuwo to Mowani Mountain Campsite, Namibia
Off again, heading to the Mowani Mountains, in Damaraland. First, though, we need fuel, milk & bread. Luckily, today, the servo has their network up & running and can process credit card payments, so we filled up (approx. 100L @ $AUD 1.50/L). In the “OK Supermarket” we got our milkRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 34 – Himba Village, Opuwo, Etosha NP, Namibia
Today saw us travel to a Himba tribal village for a cultural tour. The trip was about 12km on a rocky dirt road – at the bottom of the valley. Looking from our lodge, the valley below seems green and forestry, but once on the valley floor you see thatRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 33 – Olifantsrus Campsite to Opuwo Country Lodge, Etosha NP, Namibia
David & I, were up early to see if we could catch any last animals at the hide before sunrise, we only saw brown hyena, a few giraffe who were very cautious about coming in to the waterhole & a sole elephant who was happy to splash around, as wellRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 32 –Okaukuejo Campsite to Olifantsrus Campsite, Etosha NP, Namibia
What a crappy night- it was sooo hot- the bed, pillows & canvas was all boiling and the temperature didn’t go down, not good conditions for sleeping – we were sweating all night. We were up at 4.15am to do a safari drive. We boarded our safari vehicle and wereRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 31 – Onguma Tamboti Campsite to Okaukuejo Campsite , Etosha NP, Namibia
We left our campsite and signed in, to the Etosha NP, we had to pay for 3 days as you need to be out of the park by 7.30 am and it would take us a few hours! As soon as we have entered we have impala playing games withRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 30 – Tsumske to Onguma Tamboti Campsite, Etosha NP, Namibia
Cows, with bells, kept walking past the campsite, dogs barking and chickens making noises kept us awake during the night. We left the site – the roads are made with Dolomite, a very white gravel, and are in good condition. We have a vet stop outside of Grootfontine- there isRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 29 – San Bushmen Village, Tsumske, Namibia
Up early, (yes we do this a lot!) for an 8 am pick up for our tour. We met Steve, our guide for the day and make tracks, it will take approximately 25 minutes to get to the village. Brendan and I sit in the back of the safari vehicleRead More …
Southern Africa – Day 28 – Mochaba Crossing to Tsumske, Namibia
to On the road travelling. Just outside of Sehitra, we were stopped at a police road block – once he found we were from Australia all he wanted to do was chat – he was very hot & would like to see snow… we had a few patient cars waitingRead More …
Aussies Overlanding in Africa
Well the itinerary is set in stone, or at least it is if we don’t want to pay more money! It’s been a quite a bit of two and throwing, with how we originally planned to do this trip. We had thought to basically just get the vehicle, with theRead More …