http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Namibia , Luderitz en-us Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:54:29 BST Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:54:29 BST 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 d http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/blog-298528.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/blog-285711.html 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 everywher http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/blog-179160.html 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 gemsbokoyrx. I felt the need to take more animal photos don't ask me why.Later on we saw 3 bat eared foxe http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/blog-162067.html So liebe Leute ich bin seelisch bereit fuer Teil 2Fuer 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 b http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/blog-133021.html 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 gra http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Luderitz/blog-106063.html