NamibRand Nature Reserve April 1st 2009 I’m on the road to Windhoek as I type these words. In the horse trailer behind me are two wooden crates, each containing a lovely young cheetah. We are all three en-route to the NamibRand Nature Reserve (NRNR) on the boundaries of the Namib-Nauklaft National Park. UK readers may recognise this reserve as the one featured in the Channel 5 documentary “Cheetah Man” that aired a few weeks ag ... read more
Africa » Namibia 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
This journal is a place to record my travels and the adventures along the way. It doesn't get updated all that often, but I'm gratified to see that quite a lot of people do seem to read it.
I have travelled in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East but my principle love is sub-Saharan Africa. From the moment I first set foot there in 2004 (Kenya) I fell completely and utterly in love with the place. I feel very much as if I have left a piece of my heart here and I have to keep returning. As I write these words I not only have travelled through ten African countries from Ethiopia i... full info