25 Years of Independence – 25 Reasons to Visit Namibia
Tomorrow sees one of Africa’s youngest nations celebrating 25 years of independence. This morning my usual 15 minute trip to work took about 45 minutes; the roads are congested and…
Tomorrow sees one of Africa’s youngest nations celebrating 25 years of independence. This morning my usual 15 minute trip to work took about 45 minutes; the roads are congested and…
This year Namibia celebrates a quarter century of independence. 21st March 1990 - I was too young to vote, but it was a momentous occasion… even if the flag lowering…
Franzi joined the team at ATI Holidays as a three month internship to help us during our peak travel season towards the end of 2014. Towards the end of her…
To kick off 2015 I thought we would use this space to give the the Namibian African Wild Dog Project an opportunity to introduce themselves. This project is a collaboration…
Ebola is an incredibly scary disease – the stuff of our worst Sci-Fi movie fears. It is now prevalent in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea,…
...and bring you back up again - This is the traditional miner's greeting from which the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia derived its motto - 'Gluck auf' Tsumeb makes…
Namibia has a total of about 1600km of coastline - roughly 1000 miles and some estimate that there are literally thousands of wrecks littered along the coast, from the oldest…
400 meters from the ocean is an unlikely place to find a shipwreck - or so you would think. Welcome to the story of the Eduard Bohlen! Probably the most…
Anyone who has heard of Namibia has undoubtedly heard of her rugged and often deadly coastline - the eerily named Skeleton Coast. Unsurprisingly the name derives from the fact that…
As Christine, our heroic reservations team manager, trains for probably the biggest challenge of her life & amp;ndash; a 369km, 24 hour, mountain bike race from Windhoek to the coast,…
There are a large number of endangered species living in Southern Africa and in Namibia specifically. Lions, Leopards, Elephant and Rhino are probably some of the better known examples of…
In honour of the first international World Giraffe Day this weekend (21st June), I am sticking with the theme of Giraffes for this post, it wasn't just an excuse to…
Seeing as this month sees the first 'World Giraffe Day' on the 21st June - what better day than the longest night of the year to celebrate the longest necked…
I will never forget the first time I saw a Hyena in the wild (OK - really large National Park, but you get the gist of it) - I was…
This past weekend I was watching The Jungle Book with my son and it got me thinking about Just so Stories and African myths. If you grew up in Uganda…