by p432140 | Mar 16, 2018 | Stories & History
Did you know there is a pebble-collector in each of us? And yes, you are also one! Someone who, when away from the trappings of civilisation, looks down and around at Namibia’s extraordinary world of rock, and is dazzled. Namibia is an open history book of geology and...
by p432140 | Mar 9, 2018 | Stories & History
Enamel mugs aren’t only reserved for those spontaneous camping trips with your family or friends at our Gondwana Campsites – you can use your enamel mug for tea, coffee, Oros orange-squash, Kool-Aid, suikerwater, soup or even a quick cereal snack. I still remember a...
by p432140 | Feb 23, 2018 | Stories & History
It might sound strange, but whenever I see a used tyre, I am taken back to a time when all I ever wanted was to stay outdoors. – A time when I’d make my way out of the house after school and slip back in just before 5pm, right before the ‘bosses’, i.e. Mom and Dad,...
by p432140 | Jan 12, 2018 | Stories & History
It was a sunny morning at the beginning of December in the Old Location of Walvis Bay. Schröder was driving down the streets of the Old Location in Walvis Bay in search of extra hands on his farm in Rooibank to pick and load watermelons onto the lorry and offload them...
by p432140 | Nov 17, 2017 | Stories & History
Secreted in the Zambezi region, on the outskirts of the water-rich channels of Nkasa Rupara National Park, the little museum became visible amidst the marula trees: a 4×4 metre thatch-roofed building commemorating the great explorer and advocate for the...
by Bernd Grahl | Sep 1, 2017 | Stories & History
To most, the name Cape Cross relates to the Fur Seal Reserve along the Namibian Skeleton Coast. However, its origins are rather interesting. During the Great Exploration, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to land on Namibian soil. Namely, Diogo Cão in 1486....
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