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After a day in Windhoek, I had clean clothes, had done what was needed and was ready to...
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It’s quite a surprise to wake up to the red sands of the Kalahari – and lovely too – as...
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After an uncomfortable night being eaten alive by mosquitoes, I climbed out of my...
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The night was stormy with a thrashing wind and a splattering of raindrops. I was happy to...
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Somewhere at the beginning of my road-trip, and I can’t remember where, I looked into a...
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Aus is really a one horse town, although you may have difficulty finding the horse. With...
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I raced the sun this morning. To the Namib wild horses.
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‘Home is where the heart is’, and today it was time to explore my temporary home at Klein...
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I sped westwards towards the Namib Desert on the long straight road between Klein Aus,...
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Heading north, I took the route around Nauté Dam and the verdant grape and date...
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Setting out to gather impressions of the country for a future Gondwana guidebook, I left...
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In 1890 Albert Voigts from Meerdorf near Braunschweig in northern Germany travelled to...