Aug 17, 2009 - NAMIBIA - Luderwitz

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Jan 1, 2009 - Lüderitz, Namibia

I should stop doing this, arriving at out of the way little villages at the beginning of the weekend.I should stop doing this, arriving at out of the way little villages at the beginning of the weekend....

Dec 9, 2008 - Fear and Loathing in Luderitz

After Aus we drove to Luderitz a seaside town on Namibia’s southern coast, just above the restricted diamond mining area. ... Although our Lonely Planet guide describes Luderitz as a ‘surreal colonial relic’, a more accurate description would probably be shithole. ... The town is located on a barren, rocky coastline.After Aus we drove to Luderitz a seaside town on Namibia’s southern coast, just above the restricted diamond mining area. ... Although our Lonely Planet guide describes Luderitz as a ‘surreal colonial relic’, a more accurate description would probably be shithole. ... The town is located on a barren, rocky coastline....

Sep 5, 2006 - Luderitz

Namibia! Much to Rie's joy we finally crossed the border into Namibia. Up to Luderitz - a quirky place on the coast squeezed between the dunes and the sea. ...

Oct 21, 2005 - Luderitz

Weather: sun, desert heat, and cool sea breezes Landscape: seaside After a lot of driving through wide sandy panoramas, passing some mysteriously feral desert horses along the way, we hit the seaside. Thankfully, albeit inexplicably, the smell becomes weaker the closer you get to the port town of Luderitz. ... Luderitz is supposed to call to mind a Bavarian village, but it just seems like a run down, tin-roofed town cut off from civilisation by hundreds of miles of desert. ... Even their railway link has been disconnected, and the dismantling and recycling of the track has an air of permanency about it.Weather: sun, desert heat, and cool sea breezes Landscape: seaside After a lot of driving through wide sandy panoramas, passing some mysteriously feral desert horses along the way, we hit the seaside. Thankfully, albeit inexplicably, the smell becomes weaker the closer you get to the port town of Luderitz. ... Luderitz is supposed to call to mind a Bavarian village, but it just seems like a run down, tin-roofed town cut off from civilisation by hundreds of miles of desert. ... Even their railway link has been disconnected, and the dismantling and recycling of the track has an air of permanency about it....

Aug 9, 2005 - Day 86-88 Luderitz Shark Island

Finally lost our hunger for cats and we could relax and actually enjoy more beautiful things like the sunset in the desert on the way to Luderitz. ... Luderitz is one of the oldest port towns in Namibia and when people (Germans mainly) first were settling the place they could crawl on their hands and knees and pick up diamonds everywhere. ... A 15 minute drive out of luderitz is Kolemanskoop, a ghost town that had all of the amenities you would expect to find in a fancy mining town. ...

Mar 24, 2004 - D: Namibia--sand, sand, and more sand

Hello From Swakopmund, Namibia! We are exactly one week into our first 3 week overland trip and we find ourselves in the small seaside town of Swakopmund surrounded by incredible sand dunes and desert.Hello From Swakopmund, Namibia! We are exactly one week into our first 3 week overland trip and we find ourselves in the small seaside town of Swakopmund surrounded by incredible sand dunes and desert....