October 23, 2014

Namibian and Finnish Musicians on Fire!

By Jana-Mari Smith Music forms an essential part of world cultures. It is something through which a culture breathes and expresses itself, something without which humans […]
October 24, 2014

Battle Bambara Nut

Text and photographs Christie Keulder – See more Foodie articles from the writer HERE at The Curious Kitchen It started so pleasantly. It was still early […]
November 10, 2014

So when is a Giraffe, a Giraffe?

Text Julian Fennessy Photographs Francois Deacon | Main photogoraph by Paul van Schalkwyk MAYBE IT IS A GIRAFFE, BUT NOT THE GIRAFFE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS […]
December 1, 2014

SAVUTE | Spring Sojourn in Savute

  A round trip from Windhoek, with Savute as the diamond in the ring… Text and photographs Annabelle Venter Spring is knocking on the door – […]
December 22, 2014

Travel tips for tree lovers

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Luise Hoffmann Summer is on its way and we’re all hoping for a generous rainy season. Fortunately most Namibian trees and shrubs are well adapted […]
February 16, 2015

Follow Jaco | A Traveling Companion

| SPITZKOPPE By Jaco Bekker My partner and I took to the road with our slobbering companion, Hurley, an 18-month-old Labrador. Planning a getaway becomes a […]
April 23, 2015

Generation Wanderlust | The Dustroaders Checklist

Text Elzanne Ersamus Have you read the Generation Wanderlust | Mahango Game Park article yet? Follow this link before reading this article: https://www.travelnewsnamibia.com/news/generation-wanderlust-mahango-game-park/#.VTihQGZ7dnQ Here are the […]
May 8, 2015

Fairy circles: What’s your theory?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Text and Photographs Helge Denker DESERT FAIRY TRAILS The fairy circles of the Namib – those bizarre patches of circular bare ground dotting desert grasslands – […]
May 28, 2015

Scenic Air | Introducing the Pilots

Compiled Sanet van Zijl Once you walk into the Scenic Air offices you are greeted with quirky and colorful old-school aviation posters. Then you start up […]
June 30, 2015

Strand Hotel: The legacy continues

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sunday Sermons and Decorated Calves’ Heads – THE LEGACY OF THE OLD STRAND HOTEL Text Edward Jenkins | Photographs Courtesy of the Sam Cohen Library, […]
November 25, 2015

Khaudum National Park

On the north-eastern outskirts of this vast land lies one of the last true Namibian wildernesses. Teeming with herds of elephant and roan, with lions meandering about and endangered African wild dogs yapping in the early evening air, Khaudum National Park is a remote, rugged and vastly unexplored utopia.
November 25, 2015

Kalahari Dreaming with Bernd Wasiolka

The Kalahari is a vast and ancient desert system stretching across southern Africa that captured the imagination of a small boy in Bochum, Germany late in the last century. The word itself had a magical ring to it for Bernd Wasiolka, and it was a place he just had to come and explore for himself.