Land Rover

Land Rover_90

We use Land Rover vehicles as our main transport. We keep our vehicles well maintained and try not to purchase new ones. There are significant environmental costs to both manufacturing a new automobile and adding your old car to the ever-growing collective junk heap.

Interesting Rig

Old_rig

Driving into town this week I noticed this thing standing next to the road. I had a quick chat with the guy looking after it and promised him a Coca Cola on my way back if he allowed me to take a few pics. So it transpired that a Herero farmer from Otjinene baught this lot… [Continue Reading]

Tracks for Africa

reconnaissance_map

Probably the single best tool for the traveler that wants to venture off the beaten track  in Africa  is a set of maps from Tracks4Africa (T4A)  for your GPS. You have one of those, right ?

Explore Namibia

The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonized in the late nineteenth century to Namibia’s independence on 21 March 1990.

Namibian fauna and flora

kudu

Namibia is home to a great variety of large fauna and avifauna. In the game parks and theneighboring grazing areas, there are the tallest elephants in the world, along with rhinoceroses, an abundance of lions, cheetahs, and leopards; ostriches, and a profusion of ungulates, including the giraffe, zebra, kudu, eland, black-faced impala, hartebeest, springbok, gemsbok,… [Continue Reading]