Namibia is huge and when putting together a trip there has to be a balance between distance to travel and sights that need to be seen. We originally thought we could possibly be able to make it from Etosha to the coast in one day if we stuck to main roads - in the end we need two nights accommodation in order to make it to Swakopmund and take in a few of the sights en-route. Our first stop was at Outjo, about 120km from Okakuejo in Etosha and this gave us the cha...

If you have been to a safari park at​ home then you will have an inkling what Etosha National Park is like, although you need to add a unhealthy dose of steroids!Etosha is over 22,000 square kilometers in size which is about half the size of Switzerland. The distance between the two entrance gates (Von Lindquist and Anderson) that we used was over 200 km with the Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) at Namutoni, Halali and Okaukuejo spaced at pretty much 75 km interv...

The drive from Windhoek to Tsumeb was around 430km on tarmac roads and pretty much all of it on the main north/south highway, the B1, in Namibia. If honest the scenery was not stunning but impressively baron/desert bush like and there was a lot of 'big sky' moments on the drive north. Fortunately I am now fully up to speed driving on the left (as we do in the UK) so keeping to the 120 kph speed limit on mainly straight roads with the odd junction and roundabout ...

It has been some time since we have been outside of Europe as we have concentrated on visiting places closer to the UK in order to use some of our remaining free rail travel coupons - it is nice to be back travelling on a 'long haul' trip!Our good friends Simon and Linda very kindly offered to take us to Birmingham Airport in order to catch Emirates flight EK42, the 09.40 Birmingham (BHX) to Dubai (DXB), which saw us boarding a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft for this...