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Pictures from a trip around Namibia in June 2005.

Namibia from above, looking rather boring	Approaching the airport	Arrival at the airport in Windhoek
Some big street in the city	The state museum	Bus stop with telecom ads
Statue near the museum	The parliament building	The largest hotel in town
The "Christuskirche" church	Street connecting a residential area to the center	Modern architecture
Building with colorful paintings	Sunset seen through an arch standing in someone’s garden	Windhoek’s skyline!
The railway station	Passengers waiting for a train	Vending machine with typical snacks
Truck stop on the trans Kalahari highway a few hours east of Windhoek	Last gas station before crossing over into Botswana	Rest stop in Botswana
Typical scenery along the highway	Some big bird sitting on a tree	Various signs near Gumare
The Gumare gas station	Ad for a "water survey" service	Street in Gumare
Trash and houses with satellite dishes	Women sitting under a tree	People crowding in front of some kind of community center
Woman in traditional dress, accompanied by a man in less traditional cloths	Hair dresser	Fashion shop
Road sign pointing to Etsha, a village close to the Okavango delta	Some houses in Etsha	Cute baby dogs playing under a shrub
The road leading from Etsha to the delta area	Guma Lagoon	A very twisted tree
Some small plants, forming a fence	Volley net	Papyrus shrubs growing in the water
Springbok hiding behind the shrubs	A mokoro, a kind of dugout canoe	Water lilly, up close
Typical vegetation in the delta	Mokoros, going where no other boat can go	Fish eagle sitting on a tree
My tent, standing under a tree	Mokoros parked on an island	Termite hill
Catfish, layed out to dry	Elephant, crossing through the water	Heading back to the camp in the late afternoon
Sunset over the delta	Last glimpses of the sun through a tree	Large field of water lillies
Elephant skull	Wart hog den	Baobab tree
Baobab tree, up close	One of the countless islands in the delta	Animal tracks in the sand
Hippos carefully observing the visitors	A small island	Island with several baobab trees
Yet another sunset over the delta	Evening entertainment	Loading all equipment back onto the boats
Caprivi Game Park, back in Namibia	Tall termite hill	The Okavango river
Some springbok…	…zebras…	…and austriches
Shopping time!	Pepsi advertisement	Dog looking intently at the apple in my hand
Rundu	Sealed road on the way to Etosha	Gravel road
Lunch break	An elephant at a water hole in Etosha	Two elephants!
Three elephants!	Finally, an entire elephant family	Kudu – note the curvy horns
Jackals looking for food	Zebra crossing the road	Sunset with giraffe
Lone gnu	Two pretty birds in a bush	And another one hopping on the floor
Two very nervous zebras	A beautiful gemsbok	Herd of gnus
Two gnus fighting	Bird nests in a tree	Water hole with two giraffes
Lizard climing up a tree	Gnu crossing the road	An extremely cute dikdik
Two zebras	Water hole with various giraffes	Giraffe drinking water
Giraffe family at a water hole	Fort at the Namutoni camp site	Plenty of animals
Hartebiest?	Road sign – and a warning	Two zebras – again!
Lots of zebras	Which way?	A very dead animal
Large group of animals near the horizon	Construction equipment	Sunset at the water hole at the Okaukuejo camp
Elephants at the water hole at night	Rhinos, too	Large nest built by social weavers (birds)
Watch tower at the Okaukuejo camp	Gas station	The camp gate
Lions!	Supermarket outside Etosha, on the way to the coast	Weird plant in the desert
Black hills	Red hills	Warning, curve ahead – an unusual event
Visitor center at Twyfelfontein	Rock engravings made by bush men thousands of years ago	Rock with giraffe chasing a herd of smaller animals
Anothr giraffe, and a lion with a long tail	Platform for viewing the engravings	Some kind of Edelweiss
Eroding pile of rocks	Brandberg, the largest mountain range in Namibia	Sparse vegetation
Public message board	Car art	Exciting landscape, not far from the coast
Settlement at Cape Cross	Seal colony at Cape Cross	Mother with baby seal
Street in Swakopmund	Light house	Beach, view to the north
Close up view of the beach	Jeep	Pay phone
Warning sign	Street leading towards the desert	Street leading towards the ocean
Raft for swimmers	Sand and waves	Beach, view to the south
Path behind the beach	Beachfront houses	Building with life-saving equipment
Pier	Seafood restaurant next to the pier	Sunset over the ocean
"No fishing" sign	A confident sandboarder	Oops!
This is easier and faster	Time to go home…	Football game
Light house, in the fog	Car wash facility	Who made these tracks?
An eco-tourist in the desert	Baby snake, burrying itself in the sand	Sunset with snake, dunes and ocean
Small plane for sightseeing	Dried up river	Walvis Bay Airport
Road crossing the desert	Mine in the desert	Power supply line
Mountain sticking out of the sand	Small settlement in the desert	The dried out Kuiseb river
Kuiseb Canyon	Lots of sand	Another mountain disappearing in the sand
Brown sand dunes	Red sand dunes	Gray sand dunes
The "Dead Vlei", a dried up lake	The Skeleton Coast	Seal colony
Ship wreck	View out of the cockpit	Salt works
Evaporating salt water	Harvested salt	Walvis Bay
Flamingoes	Settlement along the coast	Approaching Swakopmund from the south
Vacation homes at the north rim of Swakopmund	Back on the road: Flamingoes in the mist, Walvis Bay	Barren landscape on the way to Sesriem
At the bottom of a sand dune near Sesriem	At the top of the sand dune	Patterns in the sand
Sand and blue sky	Sunrise over the dunes in Sesriem	Dunes illuminated by the morning sun
Strange tracks in the sand	Dried up mud	Tough plant
Vegetation surrounding the dunes	A tourist taking a picture of himself	Walking towards Sossusvlei
Dead tree	Climbing over yet another sand dune	Another dead tree
Plenty of dead trees	The "Dead Vlei"	Sesriem canyon
Looking up from the bottom of the canyon	A tree growing in the canyon	Finally, the end of the canyon?

Special thanks to the team from Wild Dog Safaris who organized much of the trip. Pictures were taken with a Sony DSC-T3 and postprocessed with Picasa. Finally, here are some interesting placemarks for use with Google Earth.

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