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Very detailed Africa travelogue with lots of information for anyone planning a trip. Indexed for easy reference. 11 Countries over 3 months.
3 months in Africa -- detailed travelogue, travel tips, indexed
Larry2006-05-27 03:11:54
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/>you to drive slower than you'd like, especially in the heat. Driving these
roads is much like driving on ice: if your speed begins to even approach a
certain velocity, the car will start to slide -- and it can become quite
easy to lose control. The road coming down from the north (via Solitaire)
is in better condition, though if you take it slow (annoying as it may be),
the road from the south is passable as well.
I finally arrived at Sesriem, the small little "oasis" in the desert that
contains both the government-run campsite and the luxury Movenpick Lodge
(previously known as the Karos Lodge). I filled up with petrol at the lone
BP station (where at first, one of the pumps stopped working, so the
attendant had to finish filling the car with the second pump), and at that
station, found the greatest payphone on my whole trip -- an orange card
telephone that put calls through, but didn't deduct any credits from your
card for them! Over the next 24 hours, I'd use that phone numerous times to
make free calls all over the world -- but locals had also discovered it was
giving free calls, so there'd often be a queue for it. One strange quirk
with this phone though, was that it would not place any calls through to the
"949" area code in the U.S. Even though other phones in Namibia had no
problem doing so, this phone just would not recognize that there was a "949"
area code in the U.S., and refused to complete such calls (similar problems
cropped up from time to time in other places as well, including one phone
elsewhere in Namibia that refused to recognize the "818" area code in the
U.S.) In the end, I wound up using the phone to call family and friends in
the U.S. and Japan, as well as to call the Swakopmund area the following day
in an attempt to find an available room. One note about calling overseas
from Namibia:
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Botswana Gallery
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Cape Verde Gallery
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Kenya Gallery
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Lesotho Gallery
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Malawi Gallery
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Mauritius Gallery
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Swaziland Gallery
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Tanzania Gallery
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Zambia Gallery
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Zimbabwe Gallery
I just thought it might be helpful for you to know how i am finding your system.
Thank you
Susan J, 2008-01-28 14:00:20