http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Namibia/Waterberg/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Namibia , Waterberg en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:16:00 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:16:00 UTC Sunday dawned bright and clear and I crawled out of bed far earlier than Irsquod have liked. Nominally a day of rest some jobs still need to be done and today I had agreed to drive our new cheetah keeper Kate on the rounds of all our pens checking for damage to the fences.From the office itrsquos 24 km to the big enclosure on our neighbouring farm of Bellebenno and the road wends its w http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Waterberg/blog-318797.html Irsquove spent the last six weeks volunteering for the Cheetah Conservation Fund CCF in Namibia. Irsquove had a fantastic time so far and the best part is that Irsquoll be here for six more weeks as well.CCF was founded in 1990 by American born Dr Laurie Marker and in the decades since has made one of the greatest single contributions to the future survival of the wild cheetah population http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Waterberg/blog-276619.html We have left Windhoek and headed north to Waterberg Plateau. It was mainly tarred road all the way and as we predicted there was not much traffic about. We had a short drive on gravel roads and as a result the car now has an ominous sounding rattleThe camp is really nice and we are staying in a very swish little bungalow. As there are lots of paths around the park we have spent our time walking. http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Waterberg/blog-161353.html Windhoek ade es stehen neue Abenteuer anDas Wildlife ruft und wir folgen nur zu gerne.Auf dem Weg zu dem Etosha Nationalpark machten wir noch einen kleinen Abstecher zum Waterberg Plateau das uns empfohlen wurde.Mit einem anderen deutschen Paearchen waren wir die Einzigen auf der Campingsite und selbst ich konnte mich fuer die Anlage begeistern o Gut erholt von Naukluft und Sossusvlei wollt http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Waterberg/blog-135864.html Our next stop was Waterberg Plateau Park back down on the B1 road. Waterberg Plateau is a huge plateau huge It dominates the landscape. We had planned to do some walking trails here and enjoy the outdoors. The weather was fine by now with no sign of rain. We were due to stay at Waterberg for two nights our last two nights in Namibia but decided that one would be enough. This was because http://www.travelblog.org//Africa/Namibia/Waterberg/blog-107998.html