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Africa is a manifold continent full of fascinating cultures and languages, dramatic landscapes and amazing animals, it offers some of the greatest travel experiences.
We spent 3 weeks in Morocco in 2015, then returned twice to the southern part of the continent, to explore South-Africa, Namibia and Botswana – in 2016 and 2018.

These are our posts from these adventures in Africa:

Botswana – unspoiled wilderness in Africa

Botswana – unspoiled wilderness in Africa

Finally we have arrived to Botswana, where we visited the Chobe National Park which is proud of having approximately 1/3 of the elephant population of southern Africa. We were in the Moremi Game Park, which is supposed to be [...]

The Etosha miracle

The Etosha miracle

The days spent in the Etosha National Park resembled a real miracle. The abundance of wildlife surprised even Werner who has been to many Safaris before. And you would not believe how easy it is to mistake a zebra for [...]

In search of desert elephants in Palmwag and Hoanib river

In search of desert elephants in Palmwag and Hoanib river

The next days we were busy mainly with working ourselves through 4x4 tracks and looking for the famous desert elephants inhabiting the north-eastern side of Namibia. We were rather successful in both these tasks. So we could satisfied continue [...]

Strong contrasts in the middle of Namibia

Strong contrasts in the middle of Namibia

The days in the middle of Namibia were full of new impressions. We spent hours “photo hunting” for animals around the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, we visited some real German towns on the coast line and we explored the [...]

Fish River Canyon, the 2nd largest canyon in the world

Fish River Canyon, the 2nd largest canyon in the world

We spent 2 days at the Fish River Canyon trying to absorb its beauty and enjoy the unbelievable view, silence and peace. The second largest canyon in the world is 160km long, up to 27km wide and the inner canyon [...]

3 beautiful national parks in South Africa

3 beautiful national parks in South Africa

In the second week of our stay in South-Africa we visited 3 different national parks which all had their own charm. The West Coast National Park was full of beautiful animal, our favorites were the Hartmann Zebras. Namaqualand was [...]

First impressions from South-Africa

First impressions from South-Africa

The first couple of days in South-Africa were nothing like you would imagine as real African experience. We spent about a week in the Western Cape, in the Cape Town region, looking for penguins, whales, seals and exploring rough coastlines [...]

10 things you should do if you plan individual travel

10 things you should do if you plan individual travel

For the last couple of years we have been traveling on our own, without the help of travel agencies. Individual travel for us not only means organizing our trips for ourselves; whenever possible we don’t [...]

Morocco – an adventure in pictures

Morocco – an adventure in pictures

As long as we are able to add the first pictures from Asia, check out some highlights from our trip to Morocco last year.