Category Archives: Namibia

  Th World Effect Travelogue Video 14: Namibia from The World Effect on Vimeo. Our latest video is of two days of game driving in our big orange truck through Etosha National Park.  (See previ
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Our second and third days in Etosha park were as equally exciting and unreal as the first day.  The watering holes all over the park were running on overtime. Since the water
 Amazing Africa!... the statement became true in Etosha for us.  I am not a bright and shiny early riser and for that matter neither is Beau but we both were up and excited for our 6 am m
Sleeping under the stars and hearing singing angels in the morning sounds like a fairy tale, right? No, it is Spitzkoppe.  Spitzkoppe is in the center of a desert with enormous boulders. 
Beau and I didn't have a clue what 100,000 seals together would smell like but we had a good guess.  Our guess turned out to be correct.  The seals definitely did not smell fabulous.&#
Talk about the middle of nowhere...  Solitaire is said to be the smallest town in Namibia, which consists of a gas station, post office and a little general shop.  A Scottish (I think) m
We had an indigenous bushman walk us through the Namib-Naukluft Park from a place called Sossusvlei to Deadvlei.  He was one of the most fascinating characters we've met on this trip. 
The Namib-Naukluft National Park is in the center of the Namib Desert, which is thought to be the oldest desert on the planet.  We were up before sunrise to climb Dune 45.  This is a famo
For being so far away from home, driving through the vast barren landscape of Namibia brought me right back to home.  I had some flashbacks to many hours of windshield time of a salesman drivin