Kalahari San Peoples
Part of visiting another country is understanding their culture, their roots. We ate home-cooked German-Namibian foods (not so good), obeyed their laws (car guards, squirt [...]
The Waiting Game
The Waiting Game Rarely (if ever) is the picture perfect scene of an iconic location ready for me to walk up and "click" my photo. [...]
Quiver Trees
The German Empire ruled Namiba from 1884 to 1915, calling it "German South West Africa". In typical German fashion, they established a strict set of [...]
Big Cats of the Kalahari
The Kalahari Desert conjures up images of red sand dunes, dry rivers, wispy grasses, and BIG cats. Although the Kalahrai Park is now called the [...]
It’s All About the Hair!
Himba: Hair is Power Although there are many native tribes in Namibia, the Himba capture the iconic image with the women's red plated hair. A [...]
The Black Rhino
Black Rhinoceros or Hook-Lipped Rhinoceros or Diceros bicornis. It does not matter what you call it, it is immense, not black, has two horns, and [...]
The General and the Cheeky Teens
The General I first caught site of him at the tree-line in the distance looking a bit like a large white domed rock. Solid and [...]
At the Waterhole
It was mid-day, hot, arid, needing a break, we decided to rest at one of Etosha's waterholes. We had stopped a few waterholes during our [...]
Discovering Diamonds at Kolmanskop
Kolmanskop Kolmanskop was one of the richest towns in Africa during its heyday of diamond mining. Diamonds were so common they could be picked out [...]
