Blogs from Windhoek, Namibia, Africa - page 5

So here we are approximately 4,000 miles from home. We left at 5:30pm yesterday and arrived in our guest house 22 hours later, after 12 hours flying on two flights, 8 hours waiting around airports (but we did have a lovely meal in Gordon Ramsey’s Plane Food at Heathrow terminal five) and two taxi journeys, we are ready to start our holiday and by now we are more in need of one than when we left. Our transport has arrived, a new Ford Ranger double cab complete with two spare wheels for the inevitable punctures (or so we have been told). As I suspect we will be spending a lot of time in this over the next two weeks we hope a very reliable car. We took the car out and successfully negotiated navigating in Windhoek, ... read more

Up at a leisurely time this morning and a nice breakfast at Elegant House in Windhoek. Laston picked us up for the transfer to Na'ankuse where we discovered one of our photo tour group had already checked in and was on a feeding tour of the animals. This is an amazing place run by Marlice and Rudy van Vurren, but mostly it's Marlice who has a special relationship with the animals. They have many staff and lots of willing volunteers to lend helping hands for this huge menagerie that includes a pack of African wild dogs, lions, leopards, cheetahs, baboons, caracals and a huge assortment of farm animals. For anyone traveling to Namibia, we highly recommend a visit to this magical place. It came to the media attention when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited and ... read more

Hi all, Well some bad news, our trip has come to a end, unfortunatly Wanda has got ill and needs to return to S.A. FOR treatment, her diabetes is out of control and she needs to be seen by Doctors and treated. So we will be returning next week to Klein brack were we last went to see a good Doctor, we will be staying at riverside park for now. As i said this trip is over but we will be looking at our next one once Wanda is sronger, as we have now spent over a month in Nam i am thinking of Malawi next, but we will have to wait and see. I will stil be posting once we are back and will keep you updated. Cheers Nick and Wanda.... read more

O K we are in Windhoek on a farm called Monteiro, a couple of nice sites with a lappa for each site, nice for shade and a nice wind break,(windhoek means windhoek) The city itself might as well be in S A all the normal shops and banks, vruit and veg, WWorths, pick and pay, checkers etc. The last blog was in Keetmans hoop, from there we went to Helmeringhausen on a farm called Lovedale, these private parks on the farms are realy nice to stay in, friendly personel service, much neater than NWR, resorts,much neater and almost half the price, Lovedale farm has been in the same family for 5 generationes and thay farm with sheep. we bought some lovely mutton there, you dont seem to get lamb here in Nam. From here we wnt ... read more

Wednesday...Bedtime...Blog. It is very strange to get ready for bed and then notice it is afternoon back home. We both adjusted really well to the time difference. Thank you crazy residency lifestyle and On-Call lack of sleep schedules. Being awake for 30 hours straight several times a week really has its benefits. Especially if you need to adjust to jet lag and work the next day. Seriously though, I do think our schedules and changing rotations every month really made adjusting to a new time-zone, a new home, and new work environment much easier. We both had another busy but great day at KSH (Katature State Hospital). If you missed our blog from yesterday, go back and read it, its good :-) Our morning started our with a busy rounds on my ward, and a not ... read more