Namibia and South Africa

My wife, Nicci, and I visited the southwest African country of Namibia and the Western Cape region of South Africa from October 16th through November 12th, 2002. In Namibia our two-week itinerary included the red dunes of the Namib desert, the German coastal resort town of Swakopmund and the nearby Cape Seal reserve at Cape Cross on the Skeleton Coast, the dry, mountainous wilderness of southern Damaraland and game viewing at Etosha National Park, one of Africa's largest game preserves.

We then flew to Cape Town, South Africa and spent two weeks visiting the city and surrounding winelands and driving the famous Garden Route along the coast east of Cape Town. I kept an electronic journal during our trip which you will find below. I'm currently working on editing the 2600+ photographs I took and I plan to start building galleries of the best work shortly, so please check back often!

Go to Namibia journal entries

Go to South Africa journal entries

If you enjoy my travel journals and photos, you might also like to visit Wee Keng Hor's Southern Africa Trip travelogue. His was one of the few web journals which inspired us to visit Namibia.