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Cape Town in Three Days: A Land of Contrasts
After a year of living in rural Namibia, Cape Town hit me with a large dose of culture shock. The city seemed, on the surface, to be everything my dusty, northern corner of Namibia was not—cosmopolitan, diverse and teeming with…
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Pony Trekking in Lesotho: Malealea to Ribaneng Village
“Ummm….are we going to try to go down that on our ponies?” I heard Mariella ask our guide as my horse pulled up to the edge of a canyon. I looked at the road in front of me—at the loose…
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Malealea Lodge: Lesotho’s Sustainable Ecotourism Retreat
Throughout the year I spent living in Southern Africa, I was constantly struck by the disparity between the continent’s luxurious hotels and the living conditions of the local population. I began to question the efficacy of tourism in Africa as…
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How Big is the World?
Academic sources would have us believe that Earth is approximately 510,072,000 square kilometers and that thousands of ethnic groups speaking millions of languages inhabit its surface. Growing up, we learn that there are seven continents, six of which support human…
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A Walk around Ondangwa
The dusty, concrete cities of Ovamboland surely aren’t on many travelers’ lists of must-see places. And, aside from the odd Peace Corps volunteer or independent traveler en-route the Kunene Region from Etosha National Park, the endless floodplains of Namibia’s northern…
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Visiting |Ai-|Ais National Park in Southern Namibia
In the indigenous Nama Language, the word Namibia means “land of nothing.” The vast country in southwestern Africa received its name because of its seemingly infinite landscapes that extend toward the sky, as far as the eye can see. Yet, amidst…
