I am pleased to report that the blog for my month-long trip trip to Namibia with World Challenge Expeditions in 2002 is back online after being taken down temporarily since May. If you read the blog you will notice that there are some references to an anonymous group member, as […]
Tag: Windhoek
The return of old friends!
Today we left the coast and headed back to Windhoek for the last time. On the way we stopped at a local craft market to purchase some souvenirs and I decided to buy lots of woodwork and other crafts including bowls and little statues. They wanted a mixture of both […]
Swakopmund
What a nice place Swakopmund has been especially compared to the last couple of nights we were at Fish River Canyon. I’ll give you no points for guessing who caused the problems again! I guess the start of the problems weren’t specifically Dan’s fault. Remember that nice meal I told […]
Gibeon project – week 1
We’ve been in Gibeon around a week now and are having a great time in some respects but not in others which I’ll explain more about in this post. After leaving the hostel last week we made our way into the city centre. Our main priorities were to exchange money […]
We made it to Namibia!
Welcome to Africa…. we made it to Namibia! We’re currently in the Chameleon Hostel which is a fairly nice place to stay in the capital, Windhoek, which has a very friendly resident Meerkat. It keeps looking at us strangely but seems used to tourists. Our room has this weird mural/tapestry […]