Monthly Archive: July 2010

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Omandumba – touching the silence

Geologists would tell you that the Erongo Mountains are rich with minerals and gemstones like aquamarine, schorl, jeremejevite, quartz, fluorite and garnets (amongst others), but I have news for you, these mesmerizing mountains are...

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Quiver me timbers!

Okay! I know that I’ve got the expression wrong and that it should be the famous phrase “Shiver me timbers” as exclaimed by Long John Silver, the pirate in Robert Louis Stevenson’s book Treasure...

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Weekend at Erongo Wilderness Lodge

If you’re a regular reader you will know that we are avid campers and have camped all over Namibia.  We considered ourselves extremely spoilt therefore when we were given a night at the luxurious...

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Waterberg Revisted

It’s amazing how two weekends spent camping in the same area can be so different.  We recently revisited the Waterberg about 280 kms north of Windhoek as we particularly wanted to hike up to...