Information and photo Namibia

22 days and 6,000 kilometers
on the roads of the Namibia

di Francesca Zannoni

5° day: Etosha We dedicate an entire day to the visit of the park. The street net very is marked and, even if draft of sterrati, are covered easily; moreover if you want to sight some animal you must by force go slowly. You know that for no reason it is possible to

abandon the track in order to make outside of the road, also because, therefore making, you would be guilty of the destruction of the already meager grassy mantle, would already disturb the animals forced to cohabit with the car of the tourists, would alter the equilibrium of the park and, above all, it reproaches to you and it endorses to you from all the navigators of Continentenero.it morally. For which, if you decide to take a guide, you do not risk to corrupt it with demands for trasgressione for a photo. Perhaps, if you have already visited some great park African the Etosha will disappoint you a little, above all because a not there is the concentration of animals of the Masai Mara, or vastness of the Serengeti, but the atmosphere is however evocative and fascinating. Have always with you of sandwiches and the water for dulls it of noon.
6° day: Etosha-Kamanjab For all the day we cross the park until arriving to the field of Okaukuejo. You also take it with calm and enjoy these safari of transfer because the time to disposition is more than sufficient. To the limits of the field there is an artificial pool where the animals go to drink... lie in wait for comfortably seated on the parkes bench and you take yourselves a little time: if you are lucky you could also see something truly beautiful! To Okaukuejo benzine pump there is one good mechanical. Escapes from the field the road becomes asphalted; you are always to the inside of the park.

A very good solution for the night is the Otjitotongwe Lodge (still does not have the situated one, but the telephone yes, 067330201) close to Kamanjab. It is arrived after to have left the main road and to have covered one untarred that seems not to never end and the acceptance is... truly "strange". The owners, Tollie and Roelleen Nel and the their sons, participate to a program of safeguard of the cheetah. In their reservoir it is not only possible to admire from much neighbor these splendid felines, but it is also possible to play with some of they, obviously with those tames and under the grip surveillance to you of Mr. Nel, as it would be made with a big cat. The Lodge is composed from bungalows much cures that they make living an atmosphere you a lot old british, with peaks, laces and oil lamps. Some boongalow are constructed in fossil seaweed old 600-700 million years. The supper is served in the local restaurant and is composed from typical plates of the kitchen housewife afrikaans. If you do not want to be in the lodge it is possible to make of the camping.
7° day: Kamaniab - Petrified Forest - Khorixas The road to Khorixas is entirely tarred. For the Khorixas rest it does not have just nothing to offer. The city is decidedly bad and, to difference of the other cities in Namibia, it does not seem at all accommodates them. The only place where it is possible to sleep is the Khorixas Rest Camp (telephone 067331111; email: khorixas@iwwn.com.na, www.iwwn.com.na/khorixas), than, when it has been inaugurated, had to be pretty and pleasant. Now are passed approximately 20 years and that it has been made little maintenance. However, in order to pass a night it is ok. The evening can be had supper to the field without but great expectations. In the afternoon you can go to visit the forest petrified, situated to approximately 40 Km from the city. Even if the second forest to the world is considered, is not inserted in the traditional circuits for which the visitors they are somewhat rare. Draft of some log is lain down to you on the land going back to approximately 260 million years ago and in perfect state of conservation. Have sandwiches and something from drink because not exist bar or restaurant.
8° day: Khorixas-Twyfelfontein-Terrace Bay (Skeleton coast)

We depart from Khorixas in early morning. After to have made the customary supply of sandwiches and drinks and you resume the road of the day before. Exceeded the petrified forest you have still 40 Km of road before arriving to the crossroad of Twyfelfontein. From 25 are others here Km of sand track, but good from all the cars, before arriving to destination. To this point you will sure have understood because we have decided to subdivide this stage in two days, rifaring a piece of road already covered the day before! Your hards work will be repaid from the splendor of the landscape. The track in fact finishes in one goes encircled them from high red cliff walls, where a maze of masses accommodates one of the more important collections than rupestrian inscription of all austral Africa. There are beyond 2.500 going back images to approximately 6.000 years ago. You entrust yourselves to one of the local guides and dont go from "laziness of the citizen"; you choose without hesitation the route of an hour and ve of it you will not repent. To Twyfelfontein you can be stopped for the lunch, rigorously to the bag, and, before leaving again not omitted a visit to the toilette. A truly only experience in its kind...

The road for Terrace Bay offers one of the beautifulr panoramas of the Namibia. You will enter in the park of the Skeleton coast through the Springbokwasser Gate. You remember yourselves that in order to sleep to the inside of the park, and given the vastness of it it is worth sure the pain, you must have the reservation of the hotel that you will have made opportunely the Nwr of Windhoek. The first impact in the Skeleton is truly particular, will cover a road that seems not to never end in means to a desert that smells of saltiness and that to the sunset it is covered of lichens colors to you, until arriving to the shacks of fishermen that constitutes the village of Terrace Bay. To the evening the sea becomes still darker and threatening, the fog is made more driven in, the pebbly shoreline is covered of black orribili alghe that they are similar rubber tubes and from giant mussel. The buffet of the hotel but it will go beyond whichever expectation, because in one of the more famous places for the fishing, will come served a military mess made up of porridge, curry chicken and pasta. If you want to telephone, to the field there are two telephone booths, but not always they work. The evening on the beach hyenas and jackal go around themselves for which eye.
9° day: Terrace Bay- Chief Cross- Mile 108 (Skeleton Coast)-Swakopmund A decidedly

evocative road (is also the only one), in order to arrive to Swakopmund, the more important namibiana bathing city, is that one that covers the Skeleton Coast entire. You put in machine not hardly the fog has been gone and, if you do not have with you one supply of provisions adapted, take some sandwiches from the hotel. You remember yourselves of the supper. To this point you will discover because of an alarming name therefore: Skeleton coast. Even if with the sun the sea seems a little more inviting, its icy waters remain infested of shark, and its currents hide insidious and obviously dangerous sand banks. The skeletons are those of the ships that in times are pass to you that recent they have made shipwreck just here. The kilometers to make are many and the sold road is not a lot; the gate with two large skulls arrives you to the Ugab Mouth Gate informs to you that been exiting from the area of the park. The landscape but remains practically identical. Mile 108 is marked like equipped refreshment point. Beyond to the wind and the sea but there is little other. Continued until Cape Cross, a full of rocks cape on which Diego Cao it planted, in the 1486 first European sign in Austral Africa (sic!). Cape Cross it is famous because here alive a colony of seals of approximately 100.000 exemplary, whose it smells perceives to distance kilometers and it is not forgotten so much easy. Place decidedly adviced against for the pic-nic. You stop yourselves until that you have air cleaned up in lungs, then continued for Swakopmund, is possible here to sleep to Europe Hof Hotel in Bismarck Strasse 39 (telephone 064/405898).
10° day: Swakopmund (flight on the Skeleton Coast) Dedicate an entire morning to the visit of the city, characterized from a in a marked manner German architecture, from konditorei, backerei and from a pedestrian zone in which you will find from

the store of souvenir to the fashionable jewelry shop. Pure fairies all your purchases because in the other zones of the Namibia something is not easy to find to carry to house. If ve the felt ones, in the afternoon rent you an airplane from tourism for a pair of hours moving on the Skeleton or dunes of the Namib. To you the choice (but is better the second option). Between all the companies that more convenient is the Pleasure Flights email: redbaron@iafrica.com.na, Home page: http://www.pleasureflights.com.na (telephone: 064/404500).
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