Travelogues Namibia

We are going to Pelican Point, where the kayaking starts right away: It's amazing how close the seals are. Such playful, friendly animals! We keep getting wet because they...

Our first campsite is just over an hour from Windhoek. This is our first time driving on gravel roads, where we properly reduce tire pressure, and also our first 'river'...

Travel Impressions A very interesting place with a lot of German history. Here, the Atlantic Ocean and the desert meet directly. A wonderful sight from the airplane that...

The time passes very differently here in Namibia. I couldn't say from the feeling if I've only been here for 10 days or maybe seven or eight months. Maybe it's because of the...

Since we are all a bit crazy, on the 28th we embarked on an adventurous experience. The Röschmi's and Wilsenacks headed to the headquarters of the skydivers in Swakopmund. As we...

19th Nov. 2016 After three days of exploring Ethosha NP, we are now traveling along the Caprivi Strip towards Botswana. The environment suddenly changes, as the villages of the...

Before checking out of our hotel, we have a good breakfast and then lunch before heading to Spitzkoppe Mountain. On the way there, we briefly stop at Skeleton Beach, where we...

We spent a comfortable night on a soft bed with white bed linen, a room with an outdoor shower and a great view of the Etosha Pan. We were also spoiled with a delicious dinner...

We will spend two nights in a hostel in Lüderitz. Camping is not recommended there due to the extremely strong wind and salt. We will stroll through the streets, have dinner at...

At the beginning of our journey, we already came here to camp and because we liked it so much and the guest farm is on the way south (our next destination), we want to let the...

On foot, we set off with a guide to search for rhinos. We are very excited because we have rarely seen rhinos before - and when we did, we were always far away and in a car....

Highlights: grandiose cozy campsite - view, facilities, panoramic view of the accommodation, wonderful sunsets, morning drive with guide, coffee and cake by the pool, cooking...

Hello new campsite!

After Swakopmund, it was time to go back to the desert. After a visit to a colony of Cape fur seals, we drove to Spitzkoppe, the Matterhorn of Namibia. While camping there, we...

We have had quite a lot of experiences in the past few days. Here's just a brief overview, but more photos to come: - Wild horses of Aus - Luderitz (a German-influenced and...

The same day we made Dune 45, we arrived at Bushmans Farm and went on a game drive. Our guide for the game drive was a Bushman, as they call themselves. He drove us around his...

Early in the morning, we leave our camp again and set off on the Namibian roads. When we stop for lunch, the guys have to pitch in to get the truck dug in sand back on the road....

Today we can sleep a little longer as some members of our group are going to take a canoe trip on the Orange River. Afterwards, as always, we pack up our tents and hit the road....

Vacation and still getting up at 7 AM 🥱 because we are heading to the Kalahari Desert On the stop to our accommodation, we drove to the Hardap Dam including a wildlife resort. ...

In the mountains

Unfortunately, it was drizzling when we started, so we went directly to the camp. On the way there, we saw a rhinoceros. The camp there is relatively cool, considering it's in...

Here are some photos taken during our visit to Etosha National Park (known in the Ovambo language as 'Great White Place'). The national park was established by the German...

With just over 300,000 inhabitants, Windhoek is considered a cozy city by German standards - about the same size as our previous home, Freiburg. However, that's where the...

We took a trip from Aus to the sweet coastal town of Lüderitz, 120km away. Before that, the kids had a blast in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, an abandoned diamond mining...

After 2 days, we left the Desert Camp and Sossuvlei and continued towards Rostock-Ritz. The gravel roads were really extreme, not for weak bladders :-) Along the way, we stopped...

Desert Camp Sossusvlei - Namib Desert From Kalahari Anib, our tour continued through the rugged desert landscape of the Namib. We drove through the gravel roads towards Desert...

We left the somewhat 'cool' Hardap Camp and drove through the small town of Mariental towards the red dunes of the Kalahari. Arriving at the Kalahari Anib Lodge, we were greeted...

Four weeks ago (on September 15, 2016), there was a big celebration at the school where I work. The school had too few classrooms to teach all the students at the same time, so...

After arriving here in Namibia, settling in for a week, and getting used to it a bit, we had school holidays. We thought we could use them to go to the beach. We rented a house...

After 24 hours, we arrived in Windhoek. The chaos in the Addis Ababa airport's transfer area was overwhelming. There were chaotic assignments to the individual control points,...