...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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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We have focused predominantly on Namibia with these posts, but that is by no means all that there is to the Southern African region - in fact I think it's…

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Earlier this week Namibia's capital city, Windhoek, had a cloud burst like I haven't seen since I was a little girl, call it better drainage, better contruction or a change…

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We had a long drive from Vic Falls through to Mazambala Lodge but we still lingered over the champagne and orange juice, eggs benedict, chocolate croissants and fresh muffins.  It…

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   It was time to head out of Chobe and across the border into Zimbabwe, making our way towards the world heritage site of Victoria Falls.  We were a little…

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Our wake-up call on 14th was 5am - some would say ridiculously early, but I think our guide was vindicated when she spotted two lioness right inside the lodge gates,…

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The clouds were gathering as we ate an early breakfast and headed out of Nkasa Lupala northwards again towards Katima Mulilo. We decided to take the longer stretch of gravel…

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By Ben C. At 4:30 am, the shrill of my alarm pierces through the veil of slumber.  Fumbling around my room with the vestiges of sleep still in my eyes,…

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From Etosha we headed northwards, first through Tsumeb and Grootfontein, and then on the B8 all the way to Rundu. As we passed the veterinary fence the private game, dairy…

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The first stop on our trans-Caprivi 'family adventure' would be eastern Etosha. When we were here last, in July, we had failed miserably to find any lions which was the…

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