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Turns out I have three extra days on my Namibia ticket. I can spend 3 days in Joberg or go right on to Windhoek.

The word I'm getting in Joberg is like downtown Nairobi. Fear City.

Anybody been there recently?

seeahill wrote:Turns out I have three extra days on my Namibia ticket. I can spend 3 days in Joberg or go right on to Windhoek.

The word I'm getting in Joberg is like downtown Nairobi. Fear City.

Anybody been there recently?

That's what I was told on my last visit. I stayed in Pretoria for my week.

Pilanesburg was a beautiful park. Ancient caldera now a natural park. Short day trip. Well worth the time. Saw pretty much all of the big beasts.

Stayed here in Pretoria. Wonderful couple owns and operates it.
http://www.hudsonhouse.co.za/

I'd love to visit Namibia.

Thanks Nafod,
I've been to Namibia before. A big ridge of forest separating two deserts. I only went to one place: Fish River canyon, like the Grand Canyon, but with less water. Someone in our party was seriously injured in a bad fall and we saved his ass and went home. I hardly saw anything but the canyon.

A former German colony. It's weird. Even the poor rural communities I saw, in the middle of the Kalahari, were clean. German neat.

But you come in from the desert and stop in some town and the nicest looking place to eat looks like a German gasthaus. And you go in for lunch and after all that heat, what you want are maybe melons and a salad. What they have are sausages and potatoes and sauerkraut.

More animals in the desert than you think: desert elephants, cheetah, zebra...

Word

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Watch out for prawns