my travels in pixels

Just out of Keetmanshoop is the Quiver Tree forest. There are a couple of trees dotted here and there in other places, but nowhere else is there such a number in one place. They say they were never planted, with the largest trees being between 200-300 years old. The bushmen and Hottentot tribes use to make quivers for their arrows from the tough, pliable bark which is where they get their name. The forest is located on a private farm, but they also have a campground, guest houses and bungalows so that people can visit their forest. You don’t need to book to camp there which surprised me as most people have this on their itinerary. Just arrive before sunset they said. They charge per person – an entrance fee, a camping fee, a car fee and a night photography permit fee if you want to photograph between sunset and sunrise. We didn't book the night fee that night as we were tired from the drive and it was also a little cold and windy. She also said they had a group of Chin...

Everyone knows Lindsay loves his lions, so when he heard that Botswana had lions with black manes he had to put this on our list. Honey Badger, which are nocturnal, but we saw quite a few Kgalagadi is accessible from Namibia from the eastern border. Too far to go straight to our campground so we had booked a night at Anib Resort, 280km south of Windhoek that has three camping spots. They offer a night drive but why would we want to have someone else drive us around when we were about to do it ourselves. Lots of Ostrich It was day one of camping; time to see how everything worked. We had bought some spaghetti and decided to have an easy meal. OMG. Namibian spaghetti is awful, it was just a gluggy mess. Our washing up bowl leaked slightly but not enough to worry about as long as I didn’t move it after it was filled up and washed quickly. We had forgotten to buy a sponge and scourer. I knew we should have camped in Windhoek to do a dry run, with no shops for the foreseeable ...

Namibia is an African country west of Botswana and South Africa. We first planned this trip back in 2017 but found that most of the campsites were booked out so had to cancel the camper we had paid a deposit on. So this time we started booking the campsites a year out before we booked the camper.  Our first sunrise out camping Normally I would work out an itinerary, sometimes rough, sometimes detailed but I decided to leave this one to Lindsay. It was his idea and I knew nothing about the country until he showed me some photos. We would be able to combine both landscape and wildlife photography, which would keep us both happy. Bitumen road - a rare sight The original itinerary was 45 days but I suggested that this might be too long so we cut it down to 36 days door to door. I worked out the distances and times between stops which worried me as most of the roads are gravel, but he didn’t want to change anything. He researched 4WD campers and chose Bushlore....