Africa 2011:South Africa, Namibia and Zambia on Yamaha XT and Yamaha Tenerè
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June 25
The depliant of my hotel/camping
Sossusvlei (or Sossus Vlei) is a pan in the Namib-Naukluft National Park
this couple of bikers ( he’s from Holland and she from Japan) are travelling from Holland to Japan: a fall but nothing serious happenend
Namimbia is a former German settlement
is very difficult get lost on the Namibian off –road
the change of the landscape colors are amazing
around 4.30 pm sun is going down and I decided to stop at Lodge Hammerstein (https://www.hammerstein.com.na/)
luxury place, camping place is about 12 € ( 15$), but here will be probably colder than Bethiane and so I get a room without dinner for 23€ ( 29$), the most expensive room of my whole vacation. Yes a luxury place ther’s even a trained springbook
the room has electric blanket
place is very nice
in the hall I see a table with coffee, tea and cookies: I’m a guest and I can take it...ok 5 slice of cake are enough
for dinner rice and tuna
June 26
In the morning I’m the first tourist ready to go, coffee ...3 slice of cake and I take a shot with retainers that with shift work of 12 hours ( night and day) can guarantee a full customer care to the fearless tourists that dare to sleep in this wild place
ok Sossusvlei, just 80km ( 50 miles) far, but a strong trasversal wind allow me to drive at the maximum speed of 30 km/h ( 19 miles/h)...I know I’m a very turtle biker
at the entry of the park bad news: due the fact that some bikers has driven outside the road on the dunes, at the moment motorbikes aren’t allowed to go inside the park. To reach the pan I’ve got to take a shuttle: 46€ ( 58 $) ahhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But maybe hitchhiking will be possible ?
I’m lucky a nice man travelling with a boy is happy to can help me, and so I’ve got to pay just the entry
The man is a very nice person: the boy isn’t his son, but his nephew. The real father (his brother) died some year ago and so he adopted him. Since he was child the boy was a live wire and for this reason the family nicknamed him Kakoo , a little animal that never rest.
dune 45 the most famous
finally we are just 5 km ( 3 miles) far from Sossusvlei, but from here just veichle 4x4 can go forward: I’m confident. The Kako’s uncle is a former military, with experience of operation in the desert. First deflate a little bit the tires ,so grip will be better
...indeed afterwards 5 minutes we are stop in the sand !
a jeep of the rangers try to tow our weichle, but no way, so the ranger brings us to Sossusvlei, we will get the jeep late.
Local widlife
this is another common specimen of all Africa: the “Tourist Dressed Like Indiana Jones”
In almost 25 days I’ve never seen one african dressed in this way, even similar
This year rain was exceptional and even now, during the dry season, is possible see the water
on the jeep to come back ther’s a couple of italian tourists and I listen while they are speaking about the fact that in the capital Windoek they had meet people less friendly than in Walvis Bay. I’d like to try to explain them that probably a plumber of Windoek has a lot of problem as work, loan, children, wife ecc.. and if you ask something he could result “less friendly” than the 24/24 h smiling waitress of aresort, but I hadn’t said nothing.
At the end a friend of Kakoo’s uncle bails us out
At the entry of the park we greet and I begin to drive on C19 and I rest in Solitaire, not really a city, but a Gas Station with a mechanic, a camping, a little resort and a market
after dinner I take a namibian beer, really good
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The depliant of my hotel/camping
Sossusvlei (or Sossus Vlei) is a pan in the Namib-Naukluft National Park
this couple of bikers ( he’s from Holland and she from Japan) are travelling from Holland to Japan: a fall but nothing serious happenend
Namimbia is a former German settlement
is very difficult get lost on the Namibian off –road
the change of the landscape colors are amazing
around 4.30 pm sun is going down and I decided to stop at Lodge Hammerstein (https://www.hammerstein.com.na/)
luxury place, camping place is about 12 € ( 15$), but here will be probably colder than Bethiane and so I get a room without dinner for 23€ ( 29$), the most expensive room of my whole vacation. Yes a luxury place ther’s even a trained springbook
the room has electric blanket
place is very nice
in the hall I see a table with coffee, tea and cookies: I’m a guest and I can take it...ok 5 slice of cake are enough
for dinner rice and tuna
June 26
In the morning I’m the first tourist ready to go, coffee ...3 slice of cake and I take a shot with retainers that with shift work of 12 hours ( night and day) can guarantee a full customer care to the fearless tourists that dare to sleep in this wild place
ok Sossusvlei, just 80km ( 50 miles) far, but a strong trasversal wind allow me to drive at the maximum speed of 30 km/h ( 19 miles/h)...I know I’m a very turtle biker
at the entry of the park bad news: due the fact that some bikers has driven outside the road on the dunes, at the moment motorbikes aren’t allowed to go inside the park. To reach the pan I’ve got to take a shuttle: 46€ ( 58 $) ahhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But maybe hitchhiking will be possible ?
I’m lucky a nice man travelling with a boy is happy to can help me, and so I’ve got to pay just the entry
The man is a very nice person: the boy isn’t his son, but his nephew. The real father (his brother) died some year ago and so he adopted him. Since he was child the boy was a live wire and for this reason the family nicknamed him Kakoo , a little animal that never rest.
dune 45 the most famous
finally we are just 5 km ( 3 miles) far from Sossusvlei, but from here just veichle 4x4 can go forward: I’m confident. The Kako’s uncle is a former military, with experience of operation in the desert. First deflate a little bit the tires ,so grip will be better
...indeed afterwards 5 minutes we are stop in the sand !
a jeep of the rangers try to tow our weichle, but no way, so the ranger brings us to Sossusvlei, we will get the jeep late.
Local widlife
this is another common specimen of all Africa: the “Tourist Dressed Like Indiana Jones”
In almost 25 days I’ve never seen one african dressed in this way, even similar
This year rain was exceptional and even now, during the dry season, is possible see the water
on the jeep to come back ther’s a couple of italian tourists and I listen while they are speaking about the fact that in the capital Windoek they had meet people less friendly than in Walvis Bay. I’d like to try to explain them that probably a plumber of Windoek has a lot of problem as work, loan, children, wife ecc.. and if you ask something he could result “less friendly” than the 24/24 h smiling waitress of aresort, but I hadn’t said nothing.
At the end a friend of Kakoo’s uncle bails us out
At the entry of the park we greet and I begin to drive on C19 and I rest in Solitaire, not really a city, but a Gas Station with a mechanic, a camping, a little resort and a market
after dinner I take a namibian beer, really good
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June 27
A family in the camping did’nt speak good about Etosha Park and suggested to spend more time in the natural parks in Botswana. Ok I’ll use one day for the Etosha, reaching Tsumeb, sleep there at the Mousebird Hostel and buyng an half day trip in the park
Breakfast with a fantastic strudel: I reccomend the bakery of Solitaire
now I’m driving to reach the B1, the big paved road that will bring me to Tsumeb
ok is the dry season, water at minimum, but I’m at the minimum from the point of view of driver abiliy and so I had to check trowing a rock in the water...I’m really a joke biker
always use the map
here the off road was finished and has begun the paved road
Windoek, just in time to go in the bank to change some US dollar...last minute
Sun is going down and so I had a stop in Okahandja and I found a room in the GH Auberge Omulonga. The owners make an exception: the GH is closed, cause tomorrow is theirs silver jubilee . Ok I can rest, but tomorrow at 7 am i’ve got to go.
for dinner I get some fish in a take away inside a market
June 28
7,30 am I’m driving, beautiful day, sun is rising...but what a cold.
This roadsign remind me the movie Madagascar, but after some minute I saw a real warthog: too fast to can stop and take a pic
9,30 am temperature is going up
petrol station and this meat is delicious
finally Tsumeb
I’m lucky, right at the entry of the city the signal to my hostel
I’ve got the map of Tsumeb in my bookguide, 4th street. After half hour I’m not able to find the street and the city is so little. A very nice police patrol helps me: the fact is that last year the city council changed all the name of the streets
The Mousebird hostel is runed by a german couple Arno and Monika Rahn, really nice people. The hostel has inside room, a little 4 bed place in a little wooden house in the garden and tent places: i reccomend this place to everybody
https://www.namibweb.com/mousebird.htm
I need petrol for the bike: looking for a gas station I notice a playground outside a school, where a teacher is training kids to a little bit strange play. They are doing strange exercises: looks like volleyball, but they grab the ball. Another teacher explain to me that this is a play planned from the National Ministry of Education: is a mix between volleyball, basket and handball. You just need of two basket, one ball and some rocks to draw the paly field: cheap just one ball and a lot of children can play all togheter, male and female. Ther’s a national championship between schools and you can go to play the Finals in the capital Windoek. Is a way to teach to the children to play/work togheter to reach something (a victory) and maybe will be possible take the children away from the streets.
beside the playground ther’s a soccer field. The team with the soccer shoes win
a german biker that’s riding for 6 month
my dinner
A family in the camping did’nt speak good about Etosha Park and suggested to spend more time in the natural parks in Botswana. Ok I’ll use one day for the Etosha, reaching Tsumeb, sleep there at the Mousebird Hostel and buyng an half day trip in the park
Breakfast with a fantastic strudel: I reccomend the bakery of Solitaire
now I’m driving to reach the B1, the big paved road that will bring me to Tsumeb
ok is the dry season, water at minimum, but I’m at the minimum from the point of view of driver abiliy and so I had to check trowing a rock in the water...I’m really a joke biker
always use the map
here the off road was finished and has begun the paved road
Windoek, just in time to go in the bank to change some US dollar...last minute
Sun is going down and so I had a stop in Okahandja and I found a room in the GH Auberge Omulonga. The owners make an exception: the GH is closed, cause tomorrow is theirs silver jubilee . Ok I can rest, but tomorrow at 7 am i’ve got to go.
for dinner I get some fish in a take away inside a market
June 28
7,30 am I’m driving, beautiful day, sun is rising...but what a cold.
This roadsign remind me the movie Madagascar, but after some minute I saw a real warthog: too fast to can stop and take a pic
9,30 am temperature is going up
petrol station and this meat is delicious
finally Tsumeb
I’m lucky, right at the entry of the city the signal to my hostel
I’ve got the map of Tsumeb in my bookguide, 4th street. After half hour I’m not able to find the street and the city is so little. A very nice police patrol helps me: the fact is that last year the city council changed all the name of the streets
The Mousebird hostel is runed by a german couple Arno and Monika Rahn, really nice people. The hostel has inside room, a little 4 bed place in a little wooden house in the garden and tent places: i reccomend this place to everybody
https://www.namibweb.com/mousebird.htm
I need petrol for the bike: looking for a gas station I notice a playground outside a school, where a teacher is training kids to a little bit strange play. They are doing strange exercises: looks like volleyball, but they grab the ball. Another teacher explain to me that this is a play planned from the National Ministry of Education: is a mix between volleyball, basket and handball. You just need of two basket, one ball and some rocks to draw the paly field: cheap just one ball and a lot of children can play all togheter, male and female. Ther’s a national championship between schools and you can go to play the Finals in the capital Windoek. Is a way to teach to the children to play/work togheter to reach something (a victory) and maybe will be possible take the children away from the streets.
beside the playground ther’s a soccer field. The team with the soccer shoes win
a german biker that’s riding for 6 month
my dinner
KTM Jagermeister
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Julle was bitter gelukkig om de land so groen en nat te sien!
Casting from Turd
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Really cool ride report. Enjoying every read
Lovely photographs, Momo! Really enjoying reading your RR, keep it coming! :thumleft:
slicknick
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very nice and enjoyable 
PS: The game the woman plays in your photo is called "netball" Its almost similar to basket ball but without dribbling. It is a national sport in SA
Waiting for the rest :thumleft:
PS: The game the woman plays in your photo is called "netball" Its almost similar to basket ball but without dribbling. It is a national sport in SA
Waiting for the rest :thumleft:
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Stunning - as said before, it's lovely to see one's own country through a visitor's eye.
Love your positive feedback and enjoyment of the ride.... :thumleft:
Love your positive feedback and enjoyment of the ride.... :thumleft:
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Nice photos and great report.
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Grazie, il tuo rapporto è una grande prospettiva per noi sudafricani :thumleft:
Thanks, your report is a great perspective for us South Africans
Thanks, your report is a great perspective for us South Africans
A2J
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vert nice RR MOmi20 !
keep it coming.
great thing is, we can see you are having a good time.
keep it coming.
great thing is, we can see you are having a good time.
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Nice one :thumleft:
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