Windhoek is not a huge place. It has 1.5million people at the most. But coming back into Friday afternoon rush hour took a whole lot of readjusting! Life is all relative, I say to those that scoff at my words! But adjustment is helped with a hot bath, a cold beer(or three) and a fantastic meal at Windhoek's instiution called Joe's Beerhouse. Locals will snub their nose at it, but for a one nighter, it is a great little place to kick back, enjoy the fire and reli...

Getting through the border into Namibia was painless. The other car's occupants and us provided the border staff with all their entertainment. Looking around, there was nothing but the border post in this part of the country. There was just MMA all around. According to Nic, there existed this amazing place, a wildlife sanctaury - Harnas (www.harnas.de) -, where orphaned and rehabilitated animals were looked after. A place where you could literally reach out and ...

Long straight roads. Rolling tracts of green acacia trees and the cattle hiding in their shade. Beyond the vet fence, villages become more abundant and the locals use this highway as a path between one village and the next. Going through the villages when school gets out adds a riot of colour to the greens and browns of the rolling savannah that is northern Namibia far from the coastal deserts and dunes. Where the Caprivi Strip joins the bulk of Namibia is where...

To get to Etosha Pan on the route that we chose, you have to pass through Outijo. This place is remarkable for its German pastries. A local Afrikaans family make the most sublime pastries. Pastries and cattle country….it is an obvious connection! The Pan dominates this National Park. Not like a mountain dominates a landscape and draws your eye, but just by being there. Its sheer size forces you to acknowledge that it is there, even if you can't see it. But whe...

Beautiful this land is, but bloody tough to survive in.The ruined house of the Lewis family here is testominy to that. They struggled for 12 years before admitting defeat and heading for some other hills! They named the near by spring, in Afrikaans, Twyfelfontein = "Doubtful Spring". I am not sure that you can ever sleep easy knowing that your only source of water might just give up the ghost without warning. It is here too that local San communities h...