Month: April 2018

Camping somewhere in nowhere

Xakanaxa Finally arrived

Mir­ko is now our dri­ver and has to take us the last 17 kilo­me­t­res to the camp­si­te. Wit­hout fur­ther inci­dents, but with mon­key sight­ing, we reach the unspeaka­ble Xaka­na­xa Camp after ano­ther hour and we are nevert­hel­ess some­what sur­pri­sed that our cam­ping site lies in the

By 2. April 2018 0

Okavango Delta Ahoi: Panic in the Safari car

No beer in paradise

The next mor­ning starts with a 30 minu­te detour to the super­mar­ket, becau­se we still have to buy beer and meat. While I take care of the car, Pierre and Mir­ko are in a shop­ping para­di­se. In our group the men are the shop­ping vul­tures and will pro­ba­b­ly not lea­ve the shop

By 1. April 2018 0

Mokorro – Can I eat it?

With mokorro through the Okavango Delta

Today we want to lea­ve ear­ly, becau­se yes­ter­day the nice ladies from the hotel orga­nis­ed us ano­ther tour with the mokor­ro across the del­ta. A mokor­ro is a tra­di­tio­nal Bots­wa­na boat that actual­ly resem­bles a nut shell. The pas­sen­gers are sea­ted in front and at the rear

By 1. April 2018 0

Border crossing and onward journey to Maun

After a cosy break­fast in the mor­ning and a litt­le rela­xa­ti­on we start the next day’s stage to Bots­wa­na. We have about 500 kilo­me­t­res ahead of us, which means at least 6 hours of dri­ving, if not more.

Sin­ce our cur­rent camp is loca­ted just befo­re the Bots­wa­na bor­der, it

By 1. April 2018 0

Zelda Guest Farm: The slightly different pets

On our farm we are wel­co­med with Schla­ger music in the lob­by. The Nami­bi­ans are actual­ly a bit stran­ge. After we moved into our house, drank about 12 cans of beer from our stock and wat­ched a huge cater­pil­lar try­ing to enter our rooms over and over again, we alre­a­dy have

By 1. April 2018 0

Welcome to Windhoek

After a very long, exhaus­ting and slee­p­less flight we land punc­tual­ly at 7:00 o’clock in Wind­hoek with best wea­ther. As always we quick­ly orga­ni­ze a SIM card for Nami­bia and then dri­ve with our shut­tle ser­vice to the ren­tal car com­pa­ny. I sin­ce­re­ly hope that we will also

By 1. April 2018 0

Good preparation is everything

If you are plan­ning a trip to Bots­wa­na, you should be pre­pared for the Afri­can spi­rit at the time of plan­ning. If you think that hotels and cam­ping sites are quite easy to find via one of the well-known online boo­king por­tals, you are mista­ken. Ins­tead, I’ve been emailing

By 1. April 2018 0