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Gondwana Collection Namibia, gondwana history, Gondwana Collection, Canyon Lodge, gondwana canyon park, Canyon Village, Canyon Roadhouse, klein-aus vista, Guest Blogger, canyonland, follw my foosteps, karas mountains, wildebeest route, kudu trail, Ron Swilling, ron swilling, stamps and stories
July, 2 2013 in
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Follow my footsteps: Serendipity on the Wildebeest Route
It was nearly time to leave this ancient canyonland and head north-east to Klein Aus Vista
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, gondwana history, Fish River, Gondwana Collection, mule trails, gondwana canyon park, Fish River Canyon, himba, Guest Blogger, canyon mule trekking, battlesnake camp, löwen camp, Ron Swilling, löwen river, ron swilling, stamps and stories
June, 10 2013 in
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Follow my footsteps: Good gets better - The Gondwana Mule Trail from Battlesnake to Löwen Camp
When we awoke at 5.45am to guide Manilow calling ‘Moro, moro’ in Himba fashion, the...
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June, 5 2013 in
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Follow my footsteps: Starting and ending on a high - The first night on the Mule Trail at Battlesnake Camp
As the Nama legend goes, a gigantic snake was preying on the people’s livestock. They...
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Gondwana Collection Namibia, gondwana history, Gondwana Collection, Canyon Lodge, mule trails, Mannfred Goldbeck, Canyon Village, Canyon Roadhouse, Guest Blogger, wild horses of namibia, canyon mule trekking, Windhoek Beer Ambassador, mule station, environmental ambassador, Ron Swilling, ron swilling, stamps and stories
June, 3 2013 in
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Follow my footsteps: First light over Canyon Lodge ...
Often in Life you are awed by the simple things, and this morning it was the sunrise from...
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April, 23 2013 in
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Monteiro’s Hornbill - antibiotics in the nesting cavity
Attentively the bird with the strikingly large red bill and long tail watches the...
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Stamps and Stories, Gondwana Collection, namib desert, IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, namibian coast, brown hyena, Brown Hyena Research Project, stamps and stories
November, 20 2012 in
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Brown Hyena - Secretive Strandloper
To a newcomer, the Namib Desert may seem devoid of life, but several species of flora and...
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Stamps and Stories, Gondwana Collection, namibia postage stamps, Mannfred Goldbeck, nam post, Namibia Scientific Society in Windhoek, Sam Cohen Library in Swakopmund, Festus Hangula, stamps and stories
November, 20 2012 in
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Postage Stamps tell Stories about Namibia
If postage stamps could talk they would have lots of stories to tell... In this book they...
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August, 3 2012 in
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The Hoba Meteorite - Fragment of a Dwarf Planet
The meteorite on the farm Hoba, some 20 km west of Grootfontein.
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Travel, Stamps and Stories, Gondwana Collection, gondwana, animals, nature, rock hyrax, Verreaux’s eagle, african fish eagle, namibian eagles, black eagle, large african eagle, small antelopes, stamps and stories
July, 13 2012 in
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Black Eagle - A magnificent Doyen of the Hills and Mountains
The black eagle or Verreaux’s eagle, as it’s officially called, is one of four large...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, science, Stamps and Stories, vacation, gondwana, Uncategorized, nature, animals in namibia, birds in namibia, climate, Benguela Current, IUCN’s Red List, jackass penguin, guano layer, penguin eggs, southern tip of africa, penguin, african penguin, Spheniscus demersus, penguin numbers, penguins moult, stamps and stories
June, 14 2012 in
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Our African Penguin - On the List of endangered Species
It’s surprising to think of penguins in the African heat rather than in colder climes,...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, Republic of Upingtonia, Dr Georg Hartmann, Trek Boers, vacation, swa, Dr Philaletes Kuhn, South West Africa Company, Grootfontein, georg hartmann, gondwana, friendly Boer settlement, german consul, Grootfontein District, futile efforts, Lieutenant Steinhausen, Transvaal-Boers, Hereroland, south west africa, stamps and stories
June, 14 2012 in
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The Dorslandtrek (II) - Commandant Lombard and his group
The previous issue discussed the futile efforts of the first Trek Boers to establish...
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Travel, Gondwana Collection Namibia, Stamps and Stories, Republic of Upingtonia, kalahari, Trek Boers, vacation, gondwana, Uncategorized, Grootfontein District, okavango, kunene river, OvaHerero, trek boer, rehoboth area, Maharero, herero, West Transvaal, southern banks, kaoko otavi, rehoboth, publication, Bergdamara, Hai?om-Bushmen, stamps and stories
June, 13 2012 in
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Dorslandtrek (I) - The Republic of Upingtonia
Today many people are not aware that the Trek Boers laid the foundations of the...
