Arriving in Swakopmund

The small town is easy to navigate, but it still took us some time to find the youth hostel that we later staid in. Here Aili's confused outside an old building I forgot the name of. The Atlas on the roof was originally made out of concrete, but when the building was restored in the 90:ies, it was replaced by a replica in carbon-fibre.

Towards A Distant Horizon

April 4th 2007
High were my expectations of the Namibian capital. A castle Neuschwanstein perched on the slopes between the Eros and Auas mountain chains, with a quaint cobblestoned town centre of thatched roof houses, was the least I expected. Of course this wasn’t the case as we arrived at six o’ clock to a nondescript bus-station, next to a soulless mall and the sky was as grey as in a Philip K. Dick in ... read more

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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

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