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 On the road to nowhere by GillianMcLaughlin
Specialised medication for diahorrea (Immodium or similar) and treatments for cistitis are also recommended if you are going to be far from a reasonable-sized town fro any length of time: towns such as Windhoek and Swakopmund are well served by doctors, pharmacists and hospitals.
Water is scarce in Namibia (you will be reminded of this everywhere you go). It is possible to buy a bottle of antiseptic hand "sanitizer": you get clean refreshed hands without using water. I bought mine in Belgium before leaving, in a camping specialist shop. (Mine was made by Altwater Carey in case you want to look it up). Leave a Comment
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Good shoes (especially if you go hiking).
means: not sandals and so!
Light clothes,
I prefer Linen or Cotton but wide woven.
You can even wear them with long sleeves and they protect you against the sun and insects.
A Hat ! - always protect yourself of the sun.
Sun Glasses.
A good Sun Screen,
Bug repellent (haven´t seen that many of these beasts, but anyway)
You do only need Malaria Tablets in the rain Season or when you travel up to the Caprivi.
Bring the medications you need anyway: Painkillers, First Aid Kit...
Do take enough film with you.
You may get it here, but since it is very hot here and you never know how they were stocked... films get bad when stored too hot.
depends on how much Outdoor you choose to do...
Toilet paper is always a must.
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Take easy mouldable luggage, the kind that can get battered and squashed into car boots, covered in dust and lugged into the bush.
Walking shoes are a must, flip flops too. Shorts, t- shirts, a warm jersey or windbreaker for cooler evenings and early mornings.
Leave the high heels and make up at home, it's surplus to requirements.
Hair conditioner, hair dries out badly in the dry heat and this helps keep some sort of condition to it. Plenty of sun cream, antiseptic for bites and cuts, malaria tabs, plasters, hayfever pills if applicable. Moisturiser, again a very drying atmosphere, so the skin needs lots of care.
DO remember your video camera, camera, plenty of cards or film...........take an adapter to recharge batteries or plenty of batteries, they are like gold dust in the bush believe me. A polarizer and wide angled lens. Mkae sure you keep equipment well covered and cared for, it is an extremely dusty country and many including us lost equipment to dust wrecking it. Leave a Comment
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 San rock paintings by GillianMcLaughlinLeave a Comment
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 Tree near Himba village by GillianMcLaughlinLeave a Comment
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 A cold night at Eningu Lodge by toonsarah
Most of the lodges do their best to keep things cosy with log fires and hot water bottles, for which we were very grateful.
Don't let what I've said about the cold fool you though - you need good strong sun protection too. The middle of the day is hot and sunny, even in winter, and as you're near the equator the sun is fierce.
One of the joys of a Namibian holiday is the wildlife, and if you want to capture that on film you really do need a zoom lens. Having said that though, most of the pictures on my pages were taken with a basic digital camera, so it is possible to get good pics if you're patient - and lucky!
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 Our house in the middle
of our street! by GillianMcLaughlin
Namibia in the summer is a hot, hot place. Hat, light, but strong closed shoes for scrambling about - lightweight clothing - include one long-sleeved shirt and one pair of trousers for the evening, and also to protect arms and legs from the very prickly vegetation
Safari companies normally provide tents (see photo) and bedrolls, and can arrange for a hired sleeping bag to be waiting for you before departure.
You'll need a torch (and spare batteries): the sun sets early and the tents are not en-suite. Bring toilet paper (take the roll out of the middle so it packs flat). Leave a Comment
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 by THLIN
It's clod at night and early morning in the winter time. So, I think you'd better take 1~2 jersy and 1~2 long pants. Others keep as light as possible. Taking 1 covered shoes and 1 sandols should be enough.
Remember, Namibia is a country across tropic of cancer, so it may differ from the north to the south.
It's okay if you live in a camp site.
Take SAND protection if going to dunes.
Malaria tablet is required during the malarian season. Leave a Comment
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 Quiver tree Forest by diageva
Head torch and normal one
For very cold and for very hot weather clothes
Take a good camera with a good zoom. I did make the error of go with my digital camera with a zoom of only 3X... also my camera was not good for so bright days
Walk shoes and chanclas Leave a Comment
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If you can find Tampax in a supermarket is that you can find nearly anything. Despite I was told to bring my own tampon or pads, I did founded all kind of articles of this kind Tampax, OB, pads with or without winds ... so ... For me this is a kind of indicator of what you can find in a country ... Leave a Comment
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