You have to see Victoria Falls for real once in your life.

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Chrisl

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Three months after my wife moved from the city to our farm I asked her would she like to go on a trip. She said no because being on the farm feels like holiday to her after having a stressful job in the city. I said lets go to Vic Falls. You have to see it for real once in your life. A date was set, bikes serviced and starting to count the sleeps.(I did)
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July 2006. All packed and ready to leave. First day would be 600 odd km to Lutzville on the West Coast.
This was my first trip useing a digital camera. Took a while to realise that I can take as many pics as I want it
will not cost me more!Did not take a lot in the beginning but warmed up later on!
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Turnoff to Ais-Ais. Namibia had a very wet year. Flowers everywhere.
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The hot waters of the spring is good for a tired body.
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Amanda cooking supper. Very expencive campsite. R290 for two people in a tent!!
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Lunchstop on the open flat plains.
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We stayed in Mariental in the campsite. Amanda is showing the watermark where the water went
through the buildings in Feb of that year. The whole town was under water. The Hardap dam above
town overflowed. I believe its the second time it has happened.
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We stayed with friends in Windhoek. We had to go and eat in Joes beerhouse. I think this guy is one of the
bounsers!!
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The next day was spent walking around Windhoek.
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Earlymorningstart to the Botswanaborder.
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I just had to stop in the little town I lived in. Witvlei. Not much then and not any bigger now. This place was built
after I left. Left of this building is the yard were we used to park our trucks when were there. Twenty-eight in total
when I left in 1988. I saw a lot of Namibia through the window of a truck. We only transported cattle and veggies
back to Nam from SA. If you were on the border in that time I trucked your veggies. Every second week I was in
Ondangwa.
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In the yard.
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Between Walvisbay and Swakop.
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Those were good days.
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Gobabis. In those days the numberplate for Gobabis were SX and people joked by saying the X is for the
Texas of Namibia. Lots of cattlefarms. Some became gamefarms in later years when Namibia had a touristboom
after independance.
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We stopped for the night at Zeldas lodge ten kms from the border. There is a tent with two beds under the thatch.
All for R95.00.
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They had some cats there that were caught by farmers and they will be taken to safer areas. We looked on as they
were fed.
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Possible catfood later on?
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The next morning we met these to guys on their way to Jburg from Windhoek at the border. Both brandnew.
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We would stop every 80-100km just to catch up on what we have see as we had no coms with eachother.
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Met this Dutch bunch in Ghanzi. Imagine the fuelbill on that truck. They were going down to CT. We were planning
to go up to Popa Falls and then to Katima but there was a shooting on the road near Bagani and they never caught
the gunmen and we decided to keep on to Maun.
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We spent the rest of the day dodging donkeys,dogs and cattle. Got to Audicamp late afternoon.The next day
we rode around Maun. A very busy place. We did not have enough money to do any of the tours on offer.
They were very expencive.
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We grabbed this thatchbuilding to pitch our tent under.
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We were starting to see the "upsidedown" trees on the way to Nata. Lots of potholes on this road.
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We had a good stay at Nata lodge. Sadly this place burned down a while ago but has been rebuilt I believe.


Rest will follow later.....

 
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