Southern Africa

January 2007

Namibia, Botswana, Zambia


Akwaaba = Welcome Ghana airport Fidel Castro forever (Windhoek) German church in Windhoek Jesus - damara guy selling souvenirs Chill out in Windhoek's park Live chickens at township market Contrasting clothes in township Scary kindergarden Township girls posing with pleasure Somebody was eaten on the street Drying Isaura First animal encounter outside Windhoek (quite a large one) Suicide Butterfly Desert cattle Cold beer in the desert 8-) - there's a fridge in the canopy A pass Colorful desert On a mesa Water-greedy dry plant No escape from the dust Lone survivor Burning Namib desert (or first off-road driving experience) Roof riding Only 100? We can do 140 here! Dangerous barrels Walvis Bay Fishing spot at the Atlantic (no beaches here due to cold currents) Pollution at the flamingo bay (do they get they color from this water?) More pollution Pollution - salt works Flamingos almost at the desert Saltworks near Walvis Bay Glorious flamingo Public transportation (very popular in Africa) Road to Swakopmund along the coast Shipwreck The suckers Souvenir shop A school (whites and blacks play separately) German architecture in Swakopmund Some high design in Africa A mirage on a salt road Baby seal hiding from the sun Cape cross seal colony Baby seal trying to move on the ground (quite a hard task) Seal at the Skeleton Coast Stuck in the sand Atlantic sunset Sleeping in roof tents, still stuck A shipwreck Desert rally team Skeleton Coast National Park gate (this is where you must pay) Wooden shipwreck Sea stuff Cormorants in the desert Гравицаппа :-) Kin-dza-dza Abandoned oil rig (Skeleton Coast) Sitting on a stove Scary end of off-road driving An old shipwreck under the sand Give me your skull! A part of whale Damaraland landscape High-quality road (really!) Stone pillar Making contact Ice tea degustation Petrified wood Welwitchia Mirabilis - prehistoric plant Sunset in Damaraland Twyfelfontein rock climbing This guy is very hard to spot :-) Desert rat Stone engravings at Twyfelfontain (thousands of years old) A prehistoric artist Organ pipes Hyperactive school children Termites (this one 3 m high) Water hole Kaokoland driving A morning in Himba traditional village near Opuwo Himba girl Himba hiding behind her hut Feeding time is all the time Old and young Don't remember her tribe... Herero women Goats on the street in Opuwo A view of Opuwo Opuwo dvellers School - no AIDS Studying Maths lesson leftovers A visit to Himbas Cattle on the road Kunene river - Angola and Namibia border at Epupa falls Nice real estate Damara palm Epupa falls Baobab trees in Angola Washing in the falls Epupa falls Epupa falls Epupa falls Sleeping with crocodiles Young Himba Mother and a child Himba girls (nice hair style) Himba boy Typical river in Namibia An official road - 100 km in 1.5 days :-) Alien plants Inside of a Himba hut Cultural exchange Taking rest above Ruacana falls Rainy savannah First-class Namibian citizens Zebra approach Howdy, partner! Wise Giraffe A trinity in a bush Oryx Animal diversity Money laundry Breakfast Moving east Mummy-Dragonfly The biggest meteorite on Earth near Grootfontein German technology Eagerly wanting a photo The most verbose stop sign in the World? Main Street Why build chimneys? It works anyway! Real estate Morning at Popa rapids in Caprivi Popa rapids A baobab The Grand Baobab Botswana is close See you later, Namibia! Where's the nearest car wash? Early morning grass Get your pulas ready! Telecommunication is the key for developing countries African chicken Some of all 100k impalas on the way Never drive fast during the Raining Season Botswana's Vision 2006: A Moral & Tolerant Nation :-) A little thief Never drive slow during the Raining Season or you get 3 hours of fun (at least) Do you see any water inside of the cabin? ;-) Moremi lions The mother starts to worry Father doesn't care of the tourists clicking their cameras 5 meters away Piece of cake! GNU's Not Unix :-) Mokoro trip for bloody whites Okavango lotus Flowing through the Okavango Delta Another proof of raining season A giant grasshopper Baboons are attacking! Scared chameleon Zimbabwean chameleon Run for your life! Thousands of elephants in Chobe A dinner with the family 3 legs??? "It's a river - of course there are crocodiles!" Baboon-back riding Hippo - the most dangerous wild animal Two wild beasts Hippos bathing Elephant rampage A proud eagle Waterhole? Sunset giraffe Ferry over the shortest international border - Botswana/Zambia Victoria falls from the bridge Zimbabwe/Zambia border Robert, I'm coming! Raining season brings too much haze Anton @ Vic Falls.Zambia The boiling point - here comes the water from the falls Slow shutter Victoria Falls aka Mosi-oa-Tunya - the smoke that thunders Pollution on the road Sunset in Namib desert Sunrise in the World's highest dunes of Sossuvlei Summit of the Dune 45 ~ 150m of sand Salty Sossuvlei Running ostriches Driving to the airport Quiver tree leaves
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Southern Africa