First off, these photos really are hardly of Windhoek (the capital of Namibia) at all. Jim and I flew into Windhoek from Johannsburg during our trip down there in 1997, drove around the country, and then flew out of Windhoek again. We didn't actually spend much time in the city. Most of these photos are of Etosha National Park, in the north of Namibia, of our drive across the Namib desert to a coastal resort town called Swakopmund, and then down to the gorgeous Namib-Naukluft National Park with its huge dunes. I could have called this set "Namibia", but I always name photos for cities, rather than countries, so tough.
Almost all the photos in this set feature desert in one way or another. Namibia is a harshly beautiful, unfortunate place.
Many thanks to Jim for scanning all these photos and sending them to me.
Photo List (Total 89 Photos)
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Windhoek City (6 photos) - Only a few photos here of Windhoek, Namibia's small and sort of sad capital city. We arrived on Sunday, not much was open, and we didn't linger a really long time.
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Etosha National Park and the Namib Desert (27 photos) - We left Windhoek and spent the night in the strangest hotel right of the 1960's in a village with unpaved roads called Outjo. The hotel seemed only to have a single employee, yet must have been quite luxurious in its day. We appeared to be the only people staying there. Etosha Park was hot, flat, and hard, yet beatiful in its own way. We saw more lions and other wildlife. Then we drove across the Namib Desert, experiencing 40 degree weather the whole way, with the harshest landscape either of us had ever seen.
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Swakopmund (11 photos) - Swakopmund is a little German-colony town on the coast of Namibia. A strange place - because the waters of the South Atlantic are so cold, and the Namib is so hot, a permanent but thin row of clouds hovers over the town. But that's a resort in this part of Africa - somewhere cool and out of the sun. For a Canadian, this is hard to imagine.
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Namib-Naukluft National Park (45 photos) - Swakopmund is a little German-colony town on the coast of Namibia. A strange place - because the waters of the South Atlantic are so cold, and the Namib is so hot, a permanent but thin row of clouds hovers over the town. But that's a resort in this part of Africa - somewhere cool and out of the sun. For a Canadian, this is hard to imagine.
