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Category: Erindi

  • The Khaudum Gambit

    The Khaudum Gambit

    In northeast Namibia, near the northwest corner Botswana hard on the border, there lies Khaudum Park, a very wild and remote place. Very few people visit. Infrastructure is extremely limited. It is a mind-boggling three hundred and eighty-four thousand hectare landscape and home to a variety of wildlife. Loxodonta africana exists here in a size…

  • 100 pounds and more…

    100 pounds and more…

    It was my great pleasure to have five days roaming at will on the famed Erindi Game Reserve in Namibia last week. The owner, Paul Joubert, repeatedly admonishing me that I had not seen the “big one” yet. He was correct and prophetic. I never did see the “big one”, but man did I see…

  • Hippo Music

    Hippo Music

    OK almost everyone knows hippos are very vocal. Not everyone knows that the sounds you hear are the great beasts laughing. They are the comedians of the African animal world. They tell jokes underwater in their pods and come up to laugh. The amount of laughter is directly proportional to the humour of the joke.…

  • Name of the game?

    Name of the game?

    One of the major tourist drawing cards across Africa is its wildlife. Whether you go to a national park, or a private reserve, it is all about the game. From South Africa to Botswana to Namibia in southern Africa, and the fabled lands of Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, everyone wants the African experience…

  • Joubert’s Ark

    Joubert’s Ark

    Once upon a time high in the central highlands of Namibia, there was a place of water. The Herero called it Erindi. A magical place of rock strewn mountains, steep canyons, vast plains, and hidden enclaves frequented by the early san people. Their campsites marked by rock and cave wall etchings of animals and people…