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December 2012 we took a trip to Namibia and drove around 4000 miles all together. We started in Johannesburg and headed west to Upington. We crossed the border at Ariamsvlei and heade further west. We went by the Fish river canyon and headed for Luderitz. There is only one way in and out of Luderitz and you can feel that you are far away from the rest of the World. We stayed there for a few days in a great guest house with some of the friendliest people I have ever met.
We left Luderitz and backtracked for about a 100 miles to take the first road that would take us north to Sossusvlei. We only passed 3 cars on 200 miles of gravel road. The camp site was pretty nice nice at Sossusvlei with each site having its own hot shower and toilet.
We left Sossusvlei after 2 days and headed for Solitaire just North from where we were. We stayed at a camping site about 50 miles from Solitaire were we spotted some free roaming Kudu on several occasions.
Our next stop was Swakopmund. The road was horrible to there. There is no such thing as a tar road from Luderitz to Swakop, only gravel. The roads was pretty bad at the time of the year and if my pick-up did not have a rattle at that time it definitely developed a few on those roads
Swakop is not what it used to be. We were there a few years ago and expected the same old small holiday town. We came there and the place exploded in the last few years. It was holiday homes for miles literally. We even got stuck in traffic and what a shock to my system after all the open gravel roads we drove to there. At least the guest house was ok and we got to sandboard which was quite a bit of fun.
We headed back east to Aranos from Swakop. We have friends living near Aranos where we spent the night. We usually hunt there and it is truly a special place. No better place in the world to hunt Gemsbuck and Springbuck than there
Finally we headed south again to the Kalahari Gemsbok Park or Trans Frontier Park as they call it today. IT was extremely dry in the Park and plenty of Eland died that did not migrate north early enough and got caught up in the drought. It was pretty sad seeing all of them lying dead next to the dusty gravel roads. We drove from north to south in the park and spotted plenty of Springbuck, Gemsbuck, Wildebeest, Hyena and even a Leopard.
After two days we left the park and we were back in South-Africa. IT was a long drive from there back to home as we have driven some of the roads previously. At least we got some great biltong at a biltong shop on the way that made the road just a little bit better
Here's a few photos I took along the way. I will ad a few extra photos in the post later in the week as I still have to upload a few to photobucket.
For now:
Pieter
New photographs
Augrabies
On the way to the Fish River Canyon
Road to Aus
Kolmanskop: Ghost town near Luderitz.
Windows sandblasted over the years
Luderitz
Sossusvlei
Solitaire
Swakopmund
Trans Frontier Park
Pieter
December 2012 we took a trip to Namibia and drove around 4000 miles all together. We started in Johannesburg and headed west to Upington. We crossed the border at Ariamsvlei and heade further west. We went by the Fish river canyon and headed for Luderitz. There is only one way in and out of Luderitz and you can feel that you are far away from the rest of the World. We stayed there for a few days in a great guest house with some of the friendliest people I have ever met.
We left Luderitz and backtracked for about a 100 miles to take the first road that would take us north to Sossusvlei. We only passed 3 cars on 200 miles of gravel road. The camp site was pretty nice nice at Sossusvlei with each site having its own hot shower and toilet.
We left Sossusvlei after 2 days and headed for Solitaire just North from where we were. We stayed at a camping site about 50 miles from Solitaire were we spotted some free roaming Kudu on several occasions.
Our next stop was Swakopmund. The road was horrible to there. There is no such thing as a tar road from Luderitz to Swakop, only gravel. The roads was pretty bad at the time of the year and if my pick-up did not have a rattle at that time it definitely developed a few on those roads
Swakop is not what it used to be. We were there a few years ago and expected the same old small holiday town. We came there and the place exploded in the last few years. It was holiday homes for miles literally. We even got stuck in traffic and what a shock to my system after all the open gravel roads we drove to there. At least the guest house was ok and we got to sandboard which was quite a bit of fun.
We headed back east to Aranos from Swakop. We have friends living near Aranos where we spent the night. We usually hunt there and it is truly a special place. No better place in the world to hunt Gemsbuck and Springbuck than there
Finally we headed south again to the Kalahari Gemsbok Park or Trans Frontier Park as they call it today. IT was extremely dry in the Park and plenty of Eland died that did not migrate north early enough and got caught up in the drought. It was pretty sad seeing all of them lying dead next to the dusty gravel roads. We drove from north to south in the park and spotted plenty of Springbuck, Gemsbuck, Wildebeest, Hyena and even a Leopard.
After two days we left the park and we were back in South-Africa. IT was a long drive from there back to home as we have driven some of the roads previously. At least we got some great biltong at a biltong shop on the way that made the road just a little bit better
Here's a few photos I took along the way. I will ad a few extra photos in the post later in the week as I still have to upload a few to photobucket.
For now:
Pieter
New photographs
Augrabies
On the way to the Fish River Canyon
Road to Aus
Kolmanskop: Ghost town near Luderitz.
Windows sandblasted over the years
Luderitz
Sossusvlei
Solitaire
Swakopmund
Trans Frontier Park
Pieter
