Jen prepared to canoe

Orange River to Fish River Canyon in Namibia

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October 3rd 2006
A welcome relative lie in with breakfast at 8am. After a surprisingly breezy and chilly trip despite the sun, in an open truck from the campsite, we spent a leisurely morning canoeing down the Orange river, with the current, back to our campsite. There was some interesting birdlife including the African darter with its snake like neck. In the afternoon we headed to the Namibian border crossing an ... read more

Africa » Namibia » Fish River Canyon

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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 gr... ... read more