Posts in Category: Namibia
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Chobe River Wildlife – Elephants Everywhere
This is my second post on the Chobe River area that stretches along the Caprivi Strip which separates Namibia from Botswana. The first post featured the Chobe Savanna Lodge which, in my opinion, is quite simply one of the most wonderful places anyone could ever want to stay. This second post will feature the wildlife […]
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Chobe Savanna Lodge – Your Own Private Eden
This is the first of two posts on a recent stay at Chobe Savanna Lodge in Namibia as part of an Adventures Abroad Namibia & Botswana tour that started in Windhoek, Namibia and will end in the small city of Maun, Botswana. This first post will describe how we ended up staying in Namibia at […]
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Water Holes of Etosha – Part 2
This is my second post on the famous water holes of Etosha National Park in northern Namibia. This is the final leg of a journey that has taken us from Windhoek to the Namib Desert to the Skeleton Coast to Damaraland and now Etosha. We are spending three nights here during which we will participate […]
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Etosha – Namibia’s Wonderful Wildlife Water Holes
This the seventh post on a recent trip to the fabulous country of Namibia with Canadian travel experts Adventures Abroad. In the course of just over a week our small group has discovered that Namibia is a huge country with a great variety of landscapes. We have baked in the 40° C (104°F) temperatures of […]
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Damaraland Desert Elephant Safari
The journey continues for our intrepid group of Adventures Abroad explorers as we brave the 40°C (104°F) temperatures of the Namib Desert and Damaraland areas of Namibia in search of the flora and fauna that can survive in these conditions. We have just come from visiting the fabulous rock carvings at the UNESCO World Heritage Site […]
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Twyfelfontein – Nambia’s First World Heritage Site
This is my fifth post from a recent trip to Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad and will feature the prehistoric rock carvings at Twyfelfontein in the Damaraland region of that country. But first we need to get there from the Skeleton Coast where we have spent the last two days in the very unAfricanlike […]
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Swakopmund – Namibia’s German City
It’s moving day on Adventures Abroad’s tour of Namibia. We are relocating from the sweltering heat of the Namib Desert where we have spent the last two days exploring the amazing sights at Sossusvlei to the cold and foggy Skeleton Coast. Our destination is the small city of Swakopmund which I am told resembles more a place […]
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Sossusvlei – Namibia’s Wondrous Sand Dunes
Having just returned from a 12-day trip through Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad, I can say without hesitancy that the visit to some of the world’s largest sand dunes at Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert was one of the highlights of the trip. For someone who left a Canadian winter with temperatures dipping below […]
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Namibia – Exploring It With Adventures Abroad
Alison and I just completed a twelve-day tour exploring Namibia with Canadian travel company Adventures Abroad with whom we have traveled many times. Originally Namibia was not high on our travel priority list. Our first trip in 2019 was supposed to be to Southeast Asia, but Alison’s work commitments changed and we had to alter our […]