Reflections on the trip, and on African travel in general

A visit to Nhoma

Hartmann's or Burchell's? Legs and bellies are not visible, but there is one more clue at least, or its absence In planning this trip without fully grasping the vastness of the landscape, I found various 4x4 tracks on the comprehensive but sometimes optimistic Tracks4Africa map online. These led in a relatively straight line 100km eastwards from Etendeka to Hobatere , our next stop. Google (to its credit) would not allow me this option, offering a long loop south on actual ro

Good of them to make the sun set through a dip in the mountain An hour north of EHRA , we stop at some (well, a vast numbers of) rock...

We are camping after Swakopmund, and stock up on braai stuff and cereal at a vast Spar before heading north along the coast, past Henties...

It is 60km to the coast from Sossusvlei as the crow flies, but I doubt it would make it. We go the long way round, nearly 400km, to...

The view when you’re sitting down because your legs have turned to jelly is not bad either You have to do this , my dad said a few months...

There is so much life in this desert

23 years after my last visit, I can close my eyes and still picture the country’s exquisite golden light as it falls on dry grassland