The last major stop on my trip to Namibia was to a little known private Okonjima Reserve, home to the Africat foundation. It was here that if i didn’t see any leopards in Etosha, I felt I had the best…
Etosha part two – Pussy cat pussy cat where are you
The second part of our Etosha trip included 2 nights just outside the park at a fancy lodge. To be honest most of the lodges have been a bit fancy, fancier than i’d usually book, but it also seems going…
Etosha part one – Black Rhino spa
We are the first to say we are the kind of people who don’t need or care much for luxury when we travel, however it became evident when we stopped at the government run camp at Okaukuejo, that we may…
Gin and elephants
We went camping, or was it glamping? In Damaraland we stayed at a tented camp and inside the tents we had had all the essentials like toilet, bathroom and bed. Furnishings were not luxurious but fit for purpose. However, the…
Namibian Coast
“Have you booked any activites?” asked the lovely lady at our Guesthouse in Swakopmund. We looked at each other and obviously our idea of having a more leisurely day by the ocean is not the most common thing people come…
Sossusvlei the Namibian dessert
Words are hard to describe the desert of Namibia. It is so stunning, so incredibly hard to describe how that can be so much beauty in such a lifeless place. But its there and a couple of days at a…
Wine and Windhoek
It has been a busy few days but we’ve finally arrived in Namibia, I’m sitting in the lounge in my lodge, looking out over the Namibian desert. We just wrapped up the remaining sights of Cape Town and then flew…
To the southern tip of Africa or not?
With Table Mountain missing in action for the week so far and our trip to Robben island being postponed (for now, cancelled as i write), we hoped to have our next must see highlight hit the mark and we be…
Cape Town
Two days into my Cape Town stay and I’ve experienced just about every weather condition possible except for snow and apparently they had snow on Table Mountain not long ago. Not that I’ve seen table mountain clearly yet! Tourist trap…
Hippo gangster paradise
St Lucia, South Africa isn’t a place that woukld roll off the tip of many peoples tongue and know where it is. Some more worldy travellers would say, wait the country in the carribean. I know i knew very littkle…