Trip Report
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Our Ai Aiba room
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Our Ai Aiba room
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Ai Aiba resort
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Ai Aiba pool
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Ai Aiba chalets
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Our Safari Truck (toyota)
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tire art
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Swakopmund River from room
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Desert Breeze Chalet above the Swakopmund River
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Swakopmund River, taken from inside our room
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Swakopmund River, taken from inside our room
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Swakopmund from jetty
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pier at Swakopmund
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Swakopmund from pier
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Red Dunes at Swakopmund
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Our room at Thousand Hills
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View from Thousand Hills room
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walk up to Thousand Hills lodge
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Thousand Hills sunset
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our room at Desert Homestead Lodge
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Red Dunes of Sossusvlei
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many people hike the dunes...
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Dead Vlei at the foot of Big Daddy, tallest Sossusvlei dune
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LOOK how small the trees are...the dune is that BIG!!!!
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LOOK how small the trees are...the dune is that BIG!!!!
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View from Desert Homestead chalet
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coming in to drink at Desert Homestead water hole
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View from Mata-Mata chalet
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Auob river bed after rain
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male looking/calling for family
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giraffe fighting
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jackel
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cheetah drinking from a mud puddle
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Hartybeest
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Oryx
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Wildbeest
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Ostrich Family
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Meerkat
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easy to track lions when the walk the road
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Honey Badger
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spotted hynea
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Oryx does NOT see flat lion
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Oops, Oryx see lion NOW!!!!
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Oryx ..... stage left
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only dust remains of Oryx
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spotted hynea
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lion startled by wildebeest running
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flooded river bed after storm
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and flooded roads too
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Mier and one of her cubs
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Miera looking for her other cub
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the reunion
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Hartebeast fighting
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Hyaena with a leg bone
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Miera on another day
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Miera coming for a drink
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looking for her cubs
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look in the tree
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We thought this was another flat lion beside the road.
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Look what she was showing off.
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We spent almost 5 hours with this cub.
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Miera's cubs playing on the ridge. We saw them on 4 different mornings.
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Last sighting as we were leaving the park.
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Turning green near Mata Mata
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lots of green and yellow flowers after the rain
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just a normal road...dirt
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view from Camelthorn chalet
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a little quad bike activity on the red dunes
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view from our Auas Safari room
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Driving back to WDH. Very green after all the rain.