Photos 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
Hair dresser
Woman in traditional dress, accompanied by a man in less traditional cloths
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?