Namibia Trip - in Photos

The journey begins - Car1, packed full of our tents and bedding.

The hippo pool at Tholo Safaris. It's beautiful but completely artificial - the area would have been a seasonal pan, but it was landscaped a bit and then pumped full of water from a borehole so that it is always full. Now hippos live where they would otherwise never survive, in the middle of the Kalahari. Stranger things have happened... did you know that if you want to, you can go shoot a zebra in Texas? Or a sable antelope... oryx... springbok... impala... any number of African game?

Traditional dance at Dqae Qare - this is the oryx dance, in which two dancers pretend to be dogs, helping the hunter chase down the oryx, usually played by one of the most agile dancers, holding two long sticks up to mimic the horns of the oryx. Extra flash and weird lighting is courtesy of a tourist group from Britain.

Viewing some run-down traditional dwellings at the Omaheke San Trust camp site in Namibia.

At Omaheke San Trust in Gobabis.


At Treesleeper Campsite in Tsintsabis. The stairs you can see just behind the sink lead up to the "tree deck," a platform on which you can pitch your tent or just sit and relax.

Inside one of the bathrooms at Treesleeper.


Lizard!



Crafts and jewelery displayed at a Ju/'hoansi village on Nqa J/aqna Conservancy.




Giant baobabs on Nyae-Nyae Conservancy. I have always felt that baobabs got a bad rap in Antoine St.Exupery's "Le Petit Prince," and until I saw my first baobab, I always had a slightly suspicious feeling about them. They were the scourge of the little prince's planet, after all! But in reality, baobabs are the most mystical, incredible trees I've ever seen.