Category Archives: Tourism

After a lazy Sunday morning we left Windhoek towards the airport and soon turned left. Good gravel roads were bringing us to N/a’an ku sê. Although we are still waiting for the real rains it is already surprisingly and beautifully green. … Continue reading →

Last Sunday after we left Spitzkoppe we headed north of the Erongo Mountains towards Omaruru. If you follow the signs for Ai-Aiba lodge you will find the sign for the “San Living Museum” just before the lodge. The people here … Continue reading →

East of the Spitzkoppe is a mountain called the Pondoks because it looks like a range of huts. At the far east of the Pondoks there is this… …”pleat” in the granit. Here you can climb the mountain and a … Continue reading →

Approaching Spitzkoppe last Saturday. Driving here is easy. From Windhoek towards Swakopmund. Shortly after Usakos, turn right and follow the signs. This is a great place for camping but we rented a cabin. Very nice with comfortable beds, electricity and … Continue reading →

After a good breakfast at Frans Indongo lodge we continued to the Cheetah Conservation Fund. CCF is working broadly to save the wild cheetah and its wilderness habitat. They are working with education and public outreach, with science and research … Continue reading →

After visiting the Hoba Meteorite we continued south. We had visited Frans Indongo lodge once already but were happy to return. This time I joined one of their game drives. It was in the evening with the sun getting low. … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, just a few kilometers west of what today is a city called Grootfontein in Namibia…  (Google Maps) To be more exact it was 80 000 years ago. Something fell from the sky… And yes, maybe it could happen … Continue reading →

We woke up at Ovisume, had a good breakfast and were ready for another go! The day before was dark, but now we headed for that huge area in strong sunlight. Soon this impressing Giraffe bull turned up… …with some … Continue reading →

We arrived at Ovisume late in the afternoon but there was still time for an evening game drive. It was a beautiful, calm and very warm evening. We soon saw our first game – a herd of “Black Wildebeest”. And … Continue reading →

Some 400 km north of Windhoek, (60 km south of Grootfontein) is a hunting ranch called “Bornholm Ovisume“. We went there last Friday. We drove north from Windhoek and then turned east south of Waterberg. At Okakarara we filled up … Continue reading →