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  • Random Namibia Stuff

    The lovely Wild Dogs (and bitches) …and the one who isn’t in the picture …one of our highly competent guides. He’s a cool dude… or a Kudu, depending on who you ask I did a bit of work, thanks to great WiFi-coverage (no, seriously) Themed prayer days at this church – come ask God for…

  • Namibian Toilet Extravaganza

    Toilet breaks on this trip were few and far between, and largely came unannounced (information was available on a need-to-know basis and apparently we largely didn’t need to know where we were going, what we were doing and when or where we would be stopping). Between that and a bus full of girls drinking large…

  • Sandboarding in the 90s

    On the last day of the safari, we went sandboarding – IN THE 90s! Please enjoy the delightful cheesiness oozing from this video. I have a version of it filmed on the day we were boarding the dunes, but I couldn’t be bothered uploading it, so observe other people eat sand: Awesome soundtrack aside, it…

  • Back from the Wild

    Swakopmund is where Windhoekers summer. It’s very German. We had Kaffee and Kuchen, a lovely African Mama served us Käsesahnetorte in perfect German and we generally enjoyed the bizarre Afro-Germanness of the place. Then we rounded things off with a lovely meal and some pole dancing on the last night of the safari.

  • 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:

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…