So it’s the morning, and it’s a nice morning too. On this nice morning I’m going on a game drive; I’ll be driving along a game route in Ehi-rovipuka, counting all the animals I see and trying to classify them…
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So it’s the morning, and it’s a nice morning too. On this nice morning I’m going on a game drive; I’ll be driving along a game route in Ehi-rovipuka, counting all the animals I see and trying to classify them…
A How To Begin by sitting in the bed of a white Toyota pick-up. Look out at two ostrich running alongside the truck. Then at four giraffe in the distance, a group of heads floating above the acacia trees. Realize…
Sunset at Wereldsend. Moro! I realized one night, as I turned in my sleeping bag and wafted the trapped smell of myself into my nose, that I hadn’t showered in almost a week. To make matters worse, I had decided…
I Spy With My Little Eye… Katherine McClain We pounded through the dry Hoanib river bed in Anabeb, our hearts heavy knowing that this would be another failed attempt, but we pushed on. Vehi was confident that today would be…
March 1, 2013 By Michael Steele (Colby College) It’s strange that I’m here now, in Namibia, at Wereldsend (World’s End), writing this blog because I remember when I was a mere prospective student reading the blogs of current students….
Round River’s base camp, our home for the next 3 months.[/caption] February 24, 2013 Today is my 21st birthday, but the nearest bar is over 4 hours away. Even if I were to somehow get to this bar, the owner…
December 13, 2012 By Miles and Annie (Oberlin College) We sit, on this sunniest of afternoons, in an empty Windhoek. Really, it’s not empty. There are wealthy fashionistas shopping in the mall; pasty, swimsuit-clad European tourists by the pool; young…
Students enjoy lunch under shaded rock walls, Palmwag Concession November 26, 2012 By Annie Seder (Oberlin College ’14) We celebrated Thanksgiving in the bush in both planned and unexpected ways. The day of Thanksgiving itself was a respite from game…
Goofing off on top of Wereldsend Mountain By Molly Talbert (Middlebury College ’14) We had only finished our finals the day before, but standing on top of Wereldsend Mountain made all of our academics seem worlds away. At that…
November 26, 2012 By Aileen Lennon (University of Vermont ’13) It has now been two months since we uprooted ourselves from friends, family and first world luxuries, planting our feet in the fresh sand of Namibia. We have fallen into…
By Miles Pulsford (Oberlin College ’13) Nov 24 – 30th Hey again! This past week we finished our game counts and got to do two new exciting things. On the twenty-sixth we visited the school in Bergsig (the nearest town…
November 18, 2012 By Dulaney Miller (University of New Hampshire ’14) Our day at Etosha National Park was an experience unlike any other we’ve had so far. Waking up, our camp was not nestled in a remote riverbed exclusively to…
Lion tracks November 4, 2012 By Kristen Valerio (University of Vermont ’13) Saturday morning was our last in the Sesfontein Conservancy, where we had spent the past three nights in the Hoanib riverbed.We packed up camp early that morning and…
October 23, 2012 By Molly Talbert (Middlebury College ’14) Aileen was scared. Something was outside her tent trying to eat her and no one believed her, thinking that she was just overly paranoid, which she kind of is. Then it…
By Margaret Finch (Oberlin College ’13) October 14th, 2012 They say that time flies when you’re having fun, but in Namibia time has adopted a peculiar new identity. We have seen and done and learned so many new things, and…
October 8, 2012 By Molly Talbert (Middlebury College ’14) Students take in the view near Wereldsend Traveling in Namibia is like planet hopping, the landscape changes so quickly and so drastically.Every bend in the road isn’t the turn of a…
October 1st, By Miles Pulsford (Oberlin ’13) Hello! We’ve been here at Wereldsend (pronunciation: vair-elds-end, meaning: world’s end) for just a week, and I already feel like there’s too much to write about. Tent life, canned food life, off-road driving…