Monat: August 2008
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Smelly Seals
Day 6 – Water! Clouds! Seal colony: Smelliest. Place. Ever. Still, if you hold you breath, you see this: This might explain the smell:
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Ignorance, Art and Mountains!!!
Namibia is, by and large, blissfully ignorant-tourist-free. Then again, at the petrified forest, there was this exchange – American lady: „What does petrified mean?“ Seriously, woman, you are asking a Namibian guide whose native language is !Xhosa what an ordinary English word means! It’s your language. I recommend you learn it. [end rant] So, here…
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The day adoption started looking pretty good
This little girl made me go all mushy inside. She came towards us as we approached the Himba village, running and laughing with the other kids and immediately demanded, arms outstretched, to be picked up. She was extremely fascinated by my birthmarks, but increasingly frustrated by the fact that the damn things wouldn’t come off.…
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Flat out
After 3 full days of this… the whole flatness and vastness of land thing was beginning to wear thin, so I was extremely relieved to see some more varied landscapes as we moved south and out of Etosha.
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The Lion most certainly does not sleep at night
At Okaukuejo, we finally got a chance to view some game at night. Basically, you just sit and wait for the animals to come for the nightly pool party. Sound easier than it is when the temperature drops to 4 degrees at night. Note the elegant drinking stance of the Giraffe. Also highly entertaining: Rhinos…
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Who’s in the cage now, big guy?
Day two in Etosha, we got back on the bus and visited some more waterholes on the way to Halali camp. Here’s what the waterholes in the camps look like. Kind of a nice reversal of the traditional zoo situation, no? After lunch, some more game viewing and on to Okaukuejo. Behold the Warthog and…
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These German forts do come in handy
The first night, we stayed at Namutoni camp, which was built around an old German army fort, and it was pure luxuray! what with all the electrically lighted paths and toilets/showers contained within four walls, a roof, with lockable doors. We were all set to spend the night at the waterhole and wait for the…
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Look Ma, no bars
The first night was tough, kid, but it’s life. And it was all uphill from there. At Etosha National Park, we spent two days seeing pretty much every animal you would imagine seeing in Africa. Obviously, you’ve seen them all before, at the Zoo or in a circus, but seeing them without bars, in the…
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Eeeaasy Tiger
Before we settled down for a harrowing night in the campsite of HORRORS, we went to a wild cat rehabilitation farm, where wounded and orphaned cats are cared for until they can be released into the wild again. I CAN HAS HUMANBURGER?
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Holiday in Namibia
Brace yourself, my dear… Went on a Safari with some Wild Dogs (and bitches). The days were hot and the nights were freezing. We were camping. The first day, we drove north for a few hours to our first campsite. This is it: Note the absence of people, roads, building, or anything resembling civilisation. Which…