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Namibia 2008

July 2008

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In June/July 2008 I went on a two-week trip to Namibia with a bunch of crazy photographers. This was the longest-planned trip in my life: we organised and booked it more than a year before the event! Even my half year trip to Southeast Asia was planned with a shorter lead time.

Some of my friends wanted to go on that trip, and since I always was interested in seeing the south of Africa, I decided to join. With my single Olympus E330, however, I was woefully underequipped. The others had multiple E3s or E1s, huge impressive lenses, tri- and monopods and all other sorts of equipment with them. Still it was a very interesting and in photographic terms successful trip. Namibia is one of the wealthier countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and though on an absolute scale, this doesn't mean much, it is apparent that the country is in good working order. I've seen a lot worse in Asia.

Namibia is a sparsely populated, arid country. This is obvious everywhere: lots of empty space, and most land is, if it is not desert, a kind of bushland with grasses and some low shrubs. Water is precious and not wasted, though it appears to be available where it is needed. Most of the inland is on a high plain, well above 1km, the nights were cold and the air was so dry that on the second or third day my skin started to itch.

There is still a lot more to see in Namibia and we are planning to go back some time.

Namibia 2008

Windhoek [ 10 images ]	Mount Etjo [ 16 images ]	Mokuti [ 12 images ]	Etosha [ 118 images ]
Twyfelfontein [ 24 images ]	Swakopmund [ 24 images ]	Namib [ 108 images ]	Kalahari [ 16 images ]

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