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Gondwana Collection Namibia, gondwana history, Stories & History, fyf rand camp, andries pretorius, okahandja
April, 19 2013 in
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The good Samaritan of Fyf Rand Kamp
For the last thirty years an informal settlement on the outskirts of Okahandja has...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, gondwana history, Nama, Stories & History, Fish River Canyon, healing waters, rejuvinating, AiAis, history
April, 12 2013 in
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The healing waters of Ai-Ais: The early days
At the southern end of the Fish River Canyon, a mineral-rich hot spring encircled by...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, gondwana history, Stories & History, schutztruppe, San, world war I, Carolinenhof, lemcke, omaheke, Gobabis, war
April, 8 2013 in
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Benevolence in the Omaheke
War halts lives, draws people to new continents and changes destinies. All would be true...
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gondwana history, Suidwesdoring, namibian plant life, invasive plant species, gondwana, Stories & History, namibia plants, prosopis, auob river
October, 22 2012 in
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Prosopis – sought after at first, then rejected
It is often claimed that Prosopis made its appearance in southern Africa via Namibia. An...
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Travel, kalahari, gondwana history, gondwana, Stories & History, damaraland, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, albert voigst, voigstgrund, wecke & voigst
October, 16 2012 in
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By ox wagon through the arid Kalahari
In 1890 Albert Voigts from Meerdorf near Braunschweig in northern Germany travelled to...
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Travel, gondwana history, windhoek restaurant, Gondwana Collection, gondwana, Stories & History, photography, vast open country, pub, best restaurant in windhoek, joe’s beerhouse, steak beerhouse steak, beer house, tourists, fantastic atmosphere, bushman sosatie, joe gross
October, 10 2012 in
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Collector’s Passion gives Joe’s Beerhouse it's soul!
His creative vein is evident everywhere. Joe Gross is a talented hobby photographer, the...
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Travel, science, vacation, Stories & History, climate, transportation, Kaokoveld in Namibia, terra firma, Opuwo, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, planetary voyage, apollo 11 astronauts, buzz aldrin, jakob van zyl, the sky is not the limit, mars, japie van zyl, curiosity rover, Van Zyl’s Pass, nasa, associate director of Project Formulation and Stra
August, 24 2012 in
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The sky is not the limit
On that auspicious day on 20 July 1969, Japie’s mother went into his room in Opuwo, in...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, vacation, harbour, Stories & History, transportation, walvis bay, south west africa, desolate one, swakopmund 120 years, swakopmund lighthouse, Swakopmund’s first lighthouse, colonial-style houses, Marie Woermann, british possession, Swakopmund 120 years ago
August, 10 2012 in
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Sand fleas and Wooden huts - Swakopmund 120 years ago
January 1905. The steamship Professor Woermann lies in the roads off Swakopmund. Leaning...
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Travel, gondwana history, vacation, Gondwana Collection, Uncategorized, Stories & History, Diamantberg, narrow gauge railway, diamond rush, Kolmanskuppe, evangelical lutheran congregation, church, Felsenkirche, Lüderitz
August, 8 2012 in
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Everlasting Church on a Rock between the desert and the sea
Defying the elements, Felsenkirche (the Church on the Rock) has been overlooking the...
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Travel, gondwana history, vacation, Uncategorized, Stories & History, windhoek, namibia history, namibian stories, doc immelman, elephant tusks, namibia's own storyteller, Ses Dooie Bees langs die Grensdraad, Ruacana tot Rosh Pinah, true storyteller, humorous anecdotes, writer, namibian author, buffalo skull, Andre P Brink, daniel ferdinand immelman
July, 4 2012 in
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Namibia’s own Storyteller: Doc Immelman
With over 2000 columns and more than forty books written, Doc Immelman is a prolific and...
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May, 30 2012 in
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Vingerklip - A Sculpture of the Ugab River
From close by it resembles a climbing wall for free climbers: Vingerklip is 35 metres high
April, 3 2012 in
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The peculiar Tower of Tiras
The designer's and builder's name was Siegfried Schnebel. "This is a windmill which I...
