greg willis

Amongst the many reason to travel to Namibia, you aren't going there for the food. It it bad? No. Is it good? Occasionally.

The typical schedule for a day in Namibia goes like this:

During the day, see beautiful and unique animals. And in the evening, eat them.

Game, my friends, is what's for dinner.

Restaurants
We ate in only a handful of restaurants, staying mostly in lodges far away from towns. Two stand out as exceptional.

It was difficult to get good information about Namibia when I was planning our trip. There were only two guidebooks I could find, and everything online seemed to be published by travel agents. So if you're planning to go to Namibia, here's the experience we had with our lodging.

Here's the itinerary for our trip to Namibia. I didn't feel the need to put specific dates, the order of days should suffice.

When you plan out the itinerary yourself, one of the more difficult variables to account for is transit time. You can usually get the distances with little problem -- a decent map, or Google Earth. But distance is only one aspect. Especially in underdeveloped countries, you are not going to be zipping along at the usual USA rate of 70 mile per hour.

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So I'm still working on the photos, but I've got a couple albums up already. When all the photos are done, I'll be doing a little write-up on where we were. But until then, enjoy the pics.

- Sossusvlei Dunes

So we've been back for a while, but no Namibia. What gives? Eh, work mainly. And those photos. But with no further delay, let the Namibia blogging begin!

So after spending 16 nights in the country, what are my impressions of Namibia?

We're back home from our travels in Namibia.

We had a very good time -- the country has so much to see and the people were just wonderful. Everything went pretty much as planned.

I gotta tell you, though, it was exhausting. We probably sat still (no driving, no activities) for a total of 5 hours out of the 16 nights we were there. So we're in recuperation mode now, getting back into the routine.

I have plenty to write about, and about 2K of photos to weed through. So for the next couple of weeks it'll be Namibia, Namibia, Namibia. Stay tuned...

Merino wool.

That's my advice to this year's graduates travelers. Merino wool.

Even moreso than our southeast asia trip, we get eyebrows raised when we tell folks we're going to Namibia. Thanks to poor foreign policy judgement in the 1960s, at least people in the US know where Vietnam is. Namibia, no clue.

A few folks have vague memories of hearing of it a few months ago when someone famous had a baby there. But they can't really remember who. And they certainly can't find it on a map.