June 6, 2013
By Marita van Rooyen Vernon and Esmerelda Swanepoel’s original idea when launching Frantic Naturalist Tours and Safaris was perhaps not to get people frantic about nature, […]
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June 6, 2013
With more than 1 million tourists visiting Namibia annually, appropriate training in all tourism sections is critical. In line with this, the Ministry of Environment and […]
June 6, 2013
By Marita van Rooyen Earlier this year, we told you about Onjala, the story lodge, where there’s a tale of interest around every nook, tree and […]
June 6, 2013
Competing with more than 300 other places, Namibia’s Dead Vlei in Sossusvlei, stands a chance to become the world’s eighth wonder – if you vote, vote […]
June 6, 2013
Text and Photos by Dirk Skorski Dirk Skorski is a German freelance nature photographer who works and lives in Namibia. When photographing Namibian wildlife and landscape, […]
June 6, 2013
The recently launched Tourist Exit Survey findings pointed to a number of possible actions that can be taken by the industry to harness and improve tourist […]
June 7, 2013
Imagine a large, flat white pan with eerie stretches of nothing but twirling whirlwinds and the odd empty beer can blowing around in the dust. Now […]
June 7, 2013
TravelNewsNamibia, StayToday and Namibia Trade Directory are happy to announce the three lucky winners of our awesome prizes, which were up for grabs at the Tourism […]
June 7, 2013
TravelNewsNamibia, StayToday and Namibia Trade Directory’s stand at the Namibia Tourism Expo this year raked in a silver prize. Other winners and other categories at this […]
June 7, 2013
Text Marita van Rooyen Local tourism expert Meke Imbili shares her tips on what makes winter a special time for travelling in Namibia, detailing how to experience the […]
June 10, 2013
Text and photographs Ron Swilling Have you ever found yourself at a loose end in a city? You stride outside at the end of your last […]
June 10, 2013
A shocking discovery this past weekend was made when a farmer in the Erongo region located the carcass of a female black rhino, known as Solo, […]
June 10, 2013
Text Marita van Rooyen Built in 1914 by Count Schwerin for his fiancée, Heinitzburg Castle holds a valued history as one of Windhoek’s three historic German […]
June 10, 2013
Some of us like living on the edge, but now there’s an even more exciting option: eating On The Edge! At Hotel Thule’s On the Edge […]
June 11, 2013
With professional Portuguese baking specialist Jorge Esteves behind the oven, Pastelaria Lua de Mel in Windhoek celebrates a true honeymoon of pastries. With an ‘inside cosy, outside […]
June 11, 2013
In the 1980s Namibia’s desert lions were all but extinct. However, these lions with a “behaviour out of the ordinary” (National Geographic) have come back. Today, […]
June 12, 2013
By Jana-Mari Smith Creative, passionate, visionary. These are some of the attributes which shone through the art created by a number of children in Namibia who […]
June 12, 2013
With an executive chef straight from Finland (who has extensive experience in Namibia), Bistro Zum Kaiser in Swakopmund offers food fit for an emperor of any […]
June 12, 2013
Text and photographs Pompie Burger Main photograph: Giant Eagle Owls use their bills to regurgitate indigestable food pellets. Photo ©Pompie Burger Eating, drinking, backbiting, fighting and shouting […]
June 12, 2013
Main photo: Courtesy of Mushara Lodge Travelling is not something you should limit to a time either before you have children or after they have left […]