Windhoek

Discovering Namibia with Dusty

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April 8th 2009
**WARNING** Long Blog Entry - please get comfy before reading ... We headed to Windhoek on a Sunday and ended up staying at the Cardboard Box Backpackers (it was within walking distance from the minibus taxi stand) and set up our tent on the driest piece of sand we could find. We must say, in all the photos of Namibia that you see, it looks like the whole country is a barren desert land. It h ... read more

Africa » Namibia

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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