Travel
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Our second night in Walvis Bay we ate at Raft, the same restaurant on the bay we had eaten at the night before. We were served by the same waitress, Claire, and petted the same Norwegian Ridgeback, Motley, who moseys around the restaurant with a card on his neck telling patrons not to feed him.…
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We spent our last day in Windhoek not doing much. We slept in til 9 and then planned out our last couple days. The original plan was to do another safari from Windhoek, but it turns out that a lot of the desert is better seen from Walvis Bay, the first European trading town on the west coast (about an hour…
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At noon our bus left Livingstone, Zambia and arrived on Christmas in Windhoek, 19 hours later. The journey was long, and more importantly, cold. We were originally ecstatic about an “air conditioned” coach but when the temperature in the Namib desert dropped and the rain started, the bus became so cold I had to pull out the…
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Today I woke up at 7 to get on the internet and send yesterday’s post. The internet is very very slow and it took a couple attempts. The Jollyboys is right in the center of town and its convenient to get anywhere. I got back around 9 and we prepared for our excursion to Victoria Falls.The bus…
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The Okavango Delta is a 18,000 km squared delta spread between Botswana, Namibia and Angola and is a hotbed of ecological activity. The delta is so vast that it takes thousands of years for water to circulate within it. Since we had only three days, we decided to tackle the delta in two steps. First, we decided to…
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at bus station in johannesburg, so much has happened i cant really explain. this is a very different place we are the most popular people in johannesburg because we’re the only non-South Africans here and we live next door to barack obama. everybody loves us. its very weird going to the white mall and the…
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codrin made 10 dollars in the airport casino in amsterdam and as a result we almost missed our plane. i also checked my laptop at the airport for the next 3 weeks. and i have this feeling that it’s going to get stolen. mostly because the guy asked me flat out if it was a…
brian mayer 