Author: The Urban Wanderer
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Etosha National Park
On Thursday we left ‘Germany’ and headed north east to Etosha National Game Park. Here we spent two nights camping-but it’s more like glamping. We sleep in a tent but there’s an outdoor kitchen and a shared bathroom for all of us. Literally jackals are everywhere and they kept coming in to our camp. At…
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Am I in Germany?
Our next stop was about a five hour drive to the town of Swakopmund. On the way we stopped at the thriving metropolis of Solitaire…which was just that! Namibia has no people. About 2.5 million in the entire country. Swakopmund is a cute town by the ocean. The Germans settled here years ago and all…
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Camping in a Sauna!
Pitching a tent in the middle of the Namibian desert is indescribable. As Stef my German roommate said ‘it would be much cooler to stand underneath a blow dryer’! That just about describes it perfectly!! There is NO such thing as sun bathing. It’s like you run for shade as fast as you can and…
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Namibia Bound
Crossing the border into Namibia was like hitting a wall of heat. The temperature steadily rose as we drove north, however standing at passport control in plus 45 heat is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. Namibia is a fairly new country as it only became independent from South Africa after the apartheid in 1990. It…
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Am I too old for this? Nahhhhh
Meeting up at the joining tour group hotel was a tad interesting. I had one of those ‘oh shit I’m too old for this’ moments. The taxi drops me off and music is pumping from the hotel…kids are walking around bare foot and carrying skateboards. I get to the counter and there’s ear plugs in…
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Cape Town Continues to Impress
Day 3 in Cape Town and this place does not get old. It blows my mind actually, because this city is the exact opposite of any image you have in your mind when you think of Africa. It’s roads and infrastructure are like any first world western city. (Maybe even a bit better) I am…
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The First Glimpse of Cape Town
Hey Everyone! I’m here! At the bottom of the earth! After a grueling 27 hours of travel, I made it into Cape Town on Saturday night. The beauty of arriving at night is that it is a big surprise when you wake up the next day and head outside. You just never know what is around the…
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And the One-man show has left the building
Some of you are new to my adventure escapades, while others have been around the block (or world) with me a few times and have shared in my travel blunders and highlights through my personal emails. Whether you are new or old, I hope that I can share a piece of the world with you…
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Sailing down the Mekong River
So our time in Lao has come to an end. It truly has been an unbelievable experience. I forgot to tell you that during the long drives in the country side we would see old B52 shells. Basically the US bombed so many B52s during the Vietnam war that the Laotian people have used their…
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Winding our way through Lao
So I forgot to tell you that the night before last some dutch guys offered me opium. Beware of the Dutch! hahaha (my dad is Dutch so I can say that). I regretfully turned it down but thanked them for the offer, haha! Yesterday we started on the road bright and early. I love being…
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