Namibia 1st-11th of March Windhoek. We needed to leave asap the only place in the world where the names of Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe meet at the same crossroads. After all, we had come only to collect a visa (done!), and to locate a friendly garage and supplier for spares to do some maintenance … Read more
That’s how our day begun: hundreds of Springboks, dozens of giraffes and oryx. We had embarked, the two of us, plus Vital, on what was to become our own booze fueled Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas trip. First we needed to observe the tradition and drink a bottle of ginger spirit, to avoid a … Read more
You Kick Us Out Through The Door, We Get Inside Through The Window [dropcaps color=’#393939′ background_color=” border_color=” type=”]T[/dropcaps]he cheap drama: 3 days of begging to get out referral visa applications in (a referral visa is a visa that must be approved by the embassy in your home country), 14 days of international calls and lies, … Read more
[still] Namibia 14-24/02 Damaraland The gravel road unwound through some of the most thinly populated and driest Namibian countryside. Long before we ever learnt about this place and dreamt of riding our bike across, its native nomadic inhabitants, the hunter-gatherer San (Bushmen) and the herders Khoisan (Hottentots) had been almost entirely chased away by white … Read more
HAPPY B DAY BETTY!!! Etosha 11-12/02 Etosha National Park, “The Great WEhite Place of Dry Water”, one of the largest wildlife reserves in the world. The numbers are bewildering: 93240 km2 1907, when the park was founded, are now 22912 km2. 114 species of mammals, over 340 species of birds, 11o species of reptiles and 16 … Read more
Ovamboland & Kaokoland 12-13/02 Since entering Namibia, we’ve been noticing the well marked picnic spots. We could have not guessed then that we would bushcamp in one of these spots, forced by the national obsession for fences. Actually it was a decent camp: after a day in Etosha, we had a table, chairs and garbage … Read more
Namibia 07- 11/02 Once on the Caprivi Strip – infamous in the past for the armed ninjas that were crossing from the war ravaged Angola – we got warned that we were not alone. First morning we woke up with what we thought to be elephants crossing from the Bwabwata national park. But we saw … Read more