nico83

In the last days in Gaborone I didn't do much. I just did a little shopping and walked from the River Walk Mall towards the Gaborone Dam. I thought the River Walk would be a...

On Wednesday, on the advice of the manager of my accommodation, I went to Mokolodi Nature Reserve for a final game drive. I sat in the truck with a German family from Bayreuth....

The first days in Gaborone were relatively chilled. On the first afternoon/evening, I walked around the city center a bit, but since it was Sunday, almost everything was closed....

On Sunday, the last big stage towards Gaborone, the capital and largest city of Botswana with nearly 250,000 inhabitants (actually pronounced Haborone and means something like...

Yesterday the tour continued to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, my second to last stop before Gaborone... I left at 9 and was supposed to arrive at my accommodation at the southern...

The journey from Kasane to Maun (pronounced Ma-Un) takes a little over 6 hours and mainly goes on paved roads. In Namibia, the paved roads are also in relatively good condition!...

I was picked up at 8 o'clock in the morning today for the tour to the Vic Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. A family with an adult son from Italy, 2 guys from...

Yesterday, when I arrived in Divundu, I actually wanted to refuel. But they didn't have any diesel in the whole town... In the evening, they would expect the diesel truck and...

On Saturday, I wanted to drive from Etosha towards Divundu to the Popa Falls at the entrance to the Caprivi Strip. As soon as I left Etosha, a policeman jumped in front of me on...

On Thursday, after breakfast, we headed straight to Etosha. The park is about the size of Hesse and consists mostly of the so-called 'Etosha Pan', a huge but very shallow lake...

Well, I actually wanted to drive to Spitzkoppe today and spend the day there... When I arrived, I was able to take some photos with my DSLR camera (pictures will follow), but...

In Sossusvlei I left the house in the morning at 8°C, by the time I reached Solitaire around noon it was 26°C (the day before in Sossus it was even 29°C!) and the closer I got...

On Sunday, I traveled from Windhoek to Sossusvlei and Deadvlei. Sossusvlei is an area in the Namib Desert, which is the oldest desert in the world and has the highest sand dunes...

On Thursday my good friend and neighbor Erik picked me up and took me to the airport. The flight to Jo'burg took about 9½ hours and after a movie and dinner, I was able to doze...

It's that time again! The next big trip is coming up! 😃 This time it's back to Namibia and for the first time to Botswana and the Victoria Falls. Both countries are between 2...

Shortly after writing and posting the last entry on Saturday, I decided to make one last attempt to climb Table Mountain before my flight in the evening and I wouldn't have...

On Thursday and Friday, we wanted to tackle Table Mountain, but it was always cloudy and partly rainy. So we kept postponing it to the next day, without success. On Thursday, I...

On Wednesday, we left at 6:30 in the morning by bus to Gansbaai, which is about a 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive away, to go shark diving! =D After arriving there, we had breakfast and...

Penguins 1

On Friday afternoon, I finally landed in Cape Town. Cape Town alone has almost twice as many inhabitants with nearly 4 million residents than the whole of Namibia with its mere...

My second-to-last stage from Lüderitz was supposed to take me to Mariental to shorten the route to Windhoek as the final stage. That's about 550 km, and from Mariental to...

This time, we went on a long drive to almost the southernmost part of Namibia, Lüderitz, from Sossusvlei. On the way there, you pass by Helmeringhausen, a village with,...

From Swakop I continued to Sossusvlei. On the way there, you pass the so-called 'Tropic of Capricorn', made visible by just a sign on the side of the road. This is the latitude...

Brückendorf in Swakop

From the completely rainy Tsumeb I went to Spitzkoppe on Friday. A beautiful rock landscape that is always worth a visit! The Spitzkoppe itself is actually just one mountain of...

Keine Reise vergeht ohne Komplikationen! Meine hab ich jetzt hoffentlich für diese hinter mir! Um die Antwort auf die Frage im letzten Eintrag zu geben, nein, ich habe es...

On Monday morning, I picked up my rental car in Windhoek, a Toyota Hilux (a large off-road vehicle) with a roof tent and all the equipment needed for camping! After a thorough...

Finally, on Thursday, April 5th, the long-awaited flight to Windhoek, the capital and largest city of Namibia with a population of 300,000, departed! The 10 hours were...

Soon it's time again! The next big trip is coming up! =)Unfortunately, my old travel blog page has been deleted and all my previous travel blogs are gone... =(Therefore, I am...