Our first Etosha rest camp was on the site of an old German fort

Into Etosha

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October 26th 2015
26 October 2015 For the past couple of days the van had been suffering from a distinct loss of power and a red warning light was flashing at me. Rian, our travelling engineer, diagnosed a non-functioning turbo. Therefore it was deposited at a garage in the town of Tsumeb which was on our route today. The town sits on a rich vein of copper, other metals and unusual crystals which were min ... 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