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Background: South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War I and administered it as a mandate until after World War II, when it annexed the territory. In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla group launched a war of independence for the area that was soon named Namibia, but it was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its administration in accordance with a UN peace plan for the entire region. Namibia won its independence in 1990 and has been governed by SWAPO since. Hifikepunye POHAMBA was elected president in November 2004 in a landslide victory replacing Sam NUJOMA who led the country during its first 14 years of self rule.

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By globetrotters
July 11th 2008

Matilda

Africa » Namibia » Luderitz

Having spent our first night camping in the South African bush on the Orange River, Matilda (the name for our Land Rover) has got us safely to Fish River Canyon in Namibia. All is well in Africa, the sun is shining brighter every day as we head north. Unfortunately the BT homehub is not up to scratch in the middle of the dessert so we'll update with a full itinery in Swakopmund within the next few days. Love to all [View Full Entry]

By AfricaBound
June 6th 2008

Kolmannskuppe Ghost Town

Africa » Namibia » Luderitz

Engineer's House 1

We arrived in the town of Luderitz in the early afternoon and had lunch at a nice cafe (mmmm toasties!). We don't have any photos of the town, but it is a very pretty place and really shows the German influence. The next morning we stopped at Kolmannskuppe, which is a ghost town from the diamond mining era of Namibia. Once a very rich place where counting diamonds was done on the kitchen table over a cup of tea and people were fed laxatives and x-rayed when they exited the town. After the war when demand for diamonds dropped, the town [View Full Entry]

By Birch
July 4th 2007

Day 270

Africa » Namibia » Luderitz

RECOVERED

Loooong straight road from Keetmanshoop to Luderitz (paved) with the Restricted Diamond Area on the left southern side, and the edge of the Namib desert on the right northern side. Got into the sandy stuff for the last little bit, came up over the hill and poof - the Atlantic Ocean! (first ocean we'd seen since Zanzibar) What a beautiful sight Luderitz is - incredibly colourful buildings everywhere, hilltop churches and mansions, the ocean, the sand dunes, far warmer than inland... I could almost live there. Stayed at the Hansa Haus up on the hill offering a really nice view of [View Full Entry]

By LJ
May 17th 2007

That sand gets everywhere!

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There seems to be sand in the house!

We are now in Luderitz and therefore back on the coast. It was a bumpy 4 hours on gravel roads followed by another hour or so on tarred road before we got here. We did pass through the Namib Rand national park on the way and managed to spot the usual array of animals including springbok and gemsbok/oyrx. I felt the need to take more animal photos (don't ask me why). Later on we saw 3 bat eared foxes, which was good, as we had not seen them before, and they are not normally out in the day. We also saw [View Full Entry]

By Weltvagabunden
February 18th 2007

Namibia - Teil 2 - Das Dokument

Africa » Namibia » Luderitz

Tief im Sueden

So liebe Leute, ich bin seelisch bereit fuer Teil 2! Fuer alle die, die es schon vergessen haben: Endlich hatten wir den Karren aus dem Dreck gezogen und waren (sehr!) frohen Mutes unseren Weg fort zu setzen in Richtung der Kuestenstadt Luederitz. Inbegriffen Gas zu geben, fragt sich der Seitz nochmal, wieso sein Reisepass - das Dokument - nicht in der Hosentasche war, in der er sich normalerweise befindet. Auf der Farm von Mias zuckte mir dieser Gedanke schon einmal durch den Kopf. Und zwar zu dem Zeitpunkt wo mir der freundliche Englaender, der mich mitgenommen hatte, mir meine Kreditk [View Full Entry]

By janees
October 12th 2006

Luderitz

Africa » Namibia » Luderitz

view of Luderitz

Our next stop was Luderitz on the coast. We set off from Canon Lodge in the morning and arrived about lunchtime. The B4 road to Luderitz was one of the most wonderful journeys we have ever done. The scenery was stunningly beautiful and diverse and the landscape just kept stretching for miles. We saw some red hills (I presume they were sand dunes) in the distance, huge plains or prairies of grass (savannah), rocky peaks, it was all very very beautiful. We also saw a few of the famous feral desert horses just off the main road up a little bumpy [View Full Entry]

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