Swakopmund
There are 30,000 speakers of German as a mother tongue in a country of barely 2.5 million inhabitants
Swakopmund with its European building styles
Swakopmund and a Bavarian onion-dome church
Swakopmund - small but multi-cultural and multi-linguistic
German speakers account for some 30% of the local population.
Swakopmund and its historical association
Swakopmund's European architecture
Swakopmund with a familiar-looking half-timber construction characteristic of Germany
Swakopmund's Brewery
Swakopmund's Chemist
A desert, but not deserted, road
Shongololo Express
Shongololo Express Our Cabin
Shongololo Express Our Cabin
Shongololo Express Our Cabin
Shongololo Express Our Cabin
Shongololo Express Dining Car
Shongololo Express Dining Car
Shongololo Express Dining Car
Shongololo Express
Shongololo Express Lounge
Shongololo Express Lounge
Shongololo Express Lounge
Shongololo Express Lounge
Shongololo Express Observation Car
Shongololo Express Observation Car
Shongololo Express Observation Car
Shongololo Express
Desert Dunes
Bush Landscape
Red-Oxide Hills at Dusk
Peppercorn Tree
Vintage Locomotive
Vintage Locomotive
Shongololo Staff
Termite Hill
Tsama Melon
Cricket
Cowherd
Gondwana Etosha Lodge
Gondwana Etosha Lodge
Gondwana Etosha Lodge
Etosha N.P. Gabelracke
Etosha N.P. Elephants
Etosha N.P. Zebra
Etosha N.P. Ostrich
Etosha N.P. Springbok
Etosha N.P. Jackal
Etosha N.P. Weaverbird Nest
Etosha N.P. Impala
Etosha N.P. Eagle
Etosha N.P. Hornbill
Etosha N.P. Oryx
Etosha N.P. Hyena
Etosha N.P. Bustard
Etosha N.P. Vultures
Etosha N.P. Wildebeest
Etosha N.P. Lioness & Cubs
Etosha N.P. Lion
Etosha N.P. Zebra Crossing
Urban Development
Savanna
On The [3ft 6ins] Track
Windhoek Station
Windhoek Tinten Palast
Windhoek Christchurch
Flora
Flora
Flora
Bottle Brush
Flora
Flora
Euphorbia
Namib Desert
"Shongololo" millipede
Sossus Dune Lodge
Sossus Dune Lodge
Namib Desert Sossusvlei
Namib Desert Sesriem Canyon used to be water filled ......
.... and it took six lines of rope to haul the water up .....
ses = six / riem = rope
ses = six / riem = rope
Namib Desert Sesriem Canyon
Namib Desert Sunset
Namib Desert Dune 45, 170 metres high and composed of some 5 million year old sand blown in from the Kalahari
Namib Desert Dune 45
Namib Desert Dunes
Namib Desert Dune constantly sculpted by the wind
Namib Desert Dune Vegetation
Namib Desert Dune Vegetation
Namib Desert Dune Vegetation
Namib Desert Sossusvlei
Namib Desert Sossusvlei
Namib Desert Sossusvlei Oryx
Namib Desert Sossusvlei Pied Crow
Namib Desert Sossusvlei
Namib Desert Sossusvlei - some dunes rise to 300 metres, among the highest in the world
Namib Desert Sossusvlei
Namib Desert Weaver Nest
Namib Desert Weaver Nest
Namib Desert Our Bus
Rovos Rail Staff
Keetmanshoop History Museum
Keetmanshoop Quiver Tree, providing the quiver for the local tribe's arrows
The Quiver Tree is highly resilient to drought and is able to store up to 150 litres of water
The Quiver Tree prospers in Dolerite, rich in zinc and magnesium, which provides not only valuable minerals for the tree but protects it from winter cold.
Keetmanshoop Spiny Bush
Shongololo Express on the move
River Bed
Barbet
Sperrgebiet Diamond Mining
Kolmanskop Diamond Mining
Ghost Town
Ghost Town
Kolmanskop Diamond Mining
Ghost Town
Ghost Town
Kolmanskop Diamond Mining
Ghost Town
Ghost Town
Kolmanskop Diamond Mining
Ghost Town
Ghost Town
Succulent
Lüderitz
founded by Adolf of the same name
founded by Adolf of the same name
Lüderitz Konzert u. Ball Saal
Lüderitz Konzert u. Ball Saal
Lüderitz
Lüderitz
Lüderitz Atlantic Ocean
Lüderitz Bartolomeu Diaz Memorial
Lüderitz Atlantic Coast
Lüderitz Atlantic Coast
Lüderitz Atlantic Coast Flamingoes
Namib Desert Wild Horse
Namib Desert Sunset
Rails To Nowhere
Ostrich Family
Fish River Canyon, largest in the Southern Hemisphere and second largest in the world after the Grand Canyon
Fish River Canyon, some 500 metres deep, composed of strata of black limestone and yellow sandstone.
Young Visitors
Young Visitors
Weaver Nest
South Africa Kimberley Station
Kimberley McGregor Museum, a former sanatorium, where Cecil John Rhodes held up during the Siege of Kimberley in 1899
Kimberley McGregor Museum
Mongoose
Kimberley Mansion
Kimberley Memorial commemorating the fallen in the Kimberley Siege during the Anglo-Boer War.
Kimberley Rugby Pavilion
Kimberley Big Hole Museum
Kimberley Big Hole Museum
Kimberley Big Hole Museum
Kimberley Big Hole Museum
Kimberley Big Hole Museum
Ancient volcanos are "unplugged" and the diamonds extracting from deep inside the core
Kimberley Big Hole
Kimberley Big Hole
The carat, used to weigh diamonds, derives from the Karob tree, whose seed is remarkably consistent in both size & weight, 0.2 gms.
Flamingoes
Nelson Mandela "Madiba"
We enjoy a wonderful journey through Namibia with the Shongololo Express, a train redolent of past elegance and splendour and, as we amble on at scarcely 30 MPH, we have time to absorb the rich colours of the landscape, the rolling red oxide hills, the arid plains, contoured sand dunes and varied wildlife.
Namibia
