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Ju/Hoansi Bushmen
Living Museum - Erongo Mountains, central Namibia
Sasendle Land Rover
- enjoy 4x4 experiences on overland tours & Cape excursions
Herero ladies in
traditional attire
attending the annual
Herero Day festivities in Okahandja, Namibia
Jack-ass Penguins at
Boulder's Beach on South Africa's Cape Peninsula - walking amongst
these comical creatures is about the next best thing after watching
whales for marine life enthusiasts
Cape fur-seals living
in Namibia's Walvis Bay Lagoon regularly join marine cruise parties
to get easy meals of fish and to hitch rides to their home colonies
based along the shores of the lagoon
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Sasendle's 'Travel
Tips':
Jun to
November 2008 - page 1 /
Dec 2008 to
Mar
2009 - page 2
Apr to Jun
2009 - page 3
2008-Jun/Jul:
Travel
Tips # 1 & # 2:
Tour Extension Options
in South Africa & Namibia
2008-Aug/Sep:
Travel Tip #3
Clanwilliam & Calvinia
Sasendle’s Scheduled Tour
Namibia-Kalahari-Cape Discovery visits the Northern Cape during the
Namaqualand Flower Season.
The journey leads via Calvinia to Clanwilliam, making it the ideal place to
experience the flower spectacle at the right time and place! Clients have the
extra opportunity to experience South Africa’s finest “Wild Flower Show’, which
takes place during the last week in August and showcases the inimitable flora exclusive
to the Clanwilliam area.
More info at:
www.sa-ventues.com/events/
Photos
of Namaqualand flowers in full bloom may be found in our Photo Gallery:
Explorer Safari
and Discovery Safari
Regional and national "Flower Hotlines" are available during the period August to October.
Visitors are provided with information on quality, size and
position of the most beautiful flower areas.
A special event in Calvinia is the annual Hantam Meat Festival - "a carnivore's dream
becoming reality" on the last
weekend of August. Lamb and mutton of Southern Africa's finest quality are prepared in
every possible way and portions are sold at give-away prices.
Sasendle’s tours regularly overnight in Calvinia, at one of the oldest
and most
authentic guesthouses: Hantam Huis - we'll tell you more about this
special place in one of our next newsletter editions.
In the meantime, please take a look at the following web pages:
www.calvinia.co.za/hantam/
Travel Tip #4
Bushmen in the Erongo Mountains
Sasendle’s Scheduled Tour
Cape-Namibia Explorer provides the
opportunity to visit
the Ju/Hoansi Bushmen Living Museum, on the last day of the trip.
The Bushmen, based on the Farm Omandumba, on the northern edge of Namibia's Erongo
Mountains, present visitors with their traditional hunter-gatherer
culture dating back thousands of years. The Living Museum in the Erongo is a branch
of the original “Grashoek Museum in Bushmanland”. It serves as an educational
combination of school and museum where visitors may experience ancient Bushmen
traditions by joining the Bushmen on hunting and
gathering trips, by learning how to make fire, weapons and jewellery, and how to
prepare meals from bush food. Healing practices as well as song & dance routines
may be observed, and handmade
souvenirs are available for purchase, too.
The Erongo is Namibia's oldest mountain range and was indeed once
inhabited by a pre-historic civilisation of semi-nomadic people.
Their marvellous rock paintings and engravings tell amazing stories
of life in a worldly paradise
and encounters with foreign visitors ... we'll tell you more about
this little known 'gem' in the heart of Namibia on
'Travel
Tips' - page 3!
Travel Tip #5
More August Celebrations & Festivals
Each year, the last
Sunday in August is a significant day for
the Herero people in Namibia. During a day-long gathering and celebrations
in the town of Okahandja, hundreds of people of different Herero tribes
honour
their relatives who died since the colonial war some 100 years ago. There are horse
processions and military-style marches; the processions move through the streets
and culminate at the graves of the ancestors. It is a festival of colour and
tradition. Tourists are allowed to visit in a respectful manner.
Okahandja is situated only about 70 km north of Windhoek. Visitors
of the Herero Day who prefer to spend a few days in the area
will find accommodation in comfortable lodges and guest farms. Some
offer day excursions to the Ovitoto Herero Settlement nearby on
request.
P. S.
Sasendle can organise catered short weekend and day trips from Cape Town into
surrounding wilderness areas, along the South African west & south
coasts, and to classic sightseeing highlights in the Western Cape
Province - enjoy 4x4 experiences even
at short notice.
Enquiries:
info@sasendle-adventures.com
2008-Oct/Nov:
Travel Tip #6
Whale Watch, South Africa
Southern Right Whales
visit the
ocean waters around
South Africa's Western Cape Province between June and October each year. Here
they mate,
give birth and prepare their babies for the journey back to Antarctica.
Spending most of their stay in the shelter of peaceful bays, this is a care-free
time for the whales and an exciting experience for the youngsters who re-visit
their place of birth for the first time. Plenty of playful action may be
observed, next to whale mothers nursing their new-born babies and giant males
patrolling the bays in search of females ready for mating.
These spectacular events lend themselves as highlights of optional extension
stays in & around Cape Town, in conjunction with Sasendle's
Namibia-Kalahari-Cape Discovery and
Cape-Namibia
Explorer scheduled tour departures,
during the winter months.
Whale watching around the Cape of Good Hope, especially
towards Hermanus in the east but also
along the West Coast, was a very rewarding experience again, well into September
'08!
Hermanus is regarded as the best land-based whale watching destination in the
world. The annual Whale Festival takes place around the middle of
September.
We will publish more on Hermanus in one of our next newsletter editions.
Contact
info@sasendle-adventures.com
to enquire about excursion and accommodation options.
Photos may be found in our Photo Gallery under
South Africa:
Excursion & Activity Options (Western Cape)
Travel Tip #7
Marine Life, Namibia
Namibia's Atlantic Ocean waters and the sheltered Walvis Bay Lagoon sustain an
amazing kaleidoscope of marine life that thrives on krill, fish and plankton
swept along the coastline by the arctic Benguela Current.
Sasendle's Cape-Namibia
Explorer scheduled tour visits
Swakopmund, the premier holiday resort on the central Namibian coast, from where
a multitude of optional excursions are available to explore the unique natural
surroundings created by a cold ocean meeting a hot desert.
Apart from guided half-day trips into the Namib Desert, two of the most
outstanding experiences are a boat cruise on the Walvis Bay Lagoon and a visit
of the Cape Cross Seal Reserve.
Walvis Bay, Namibia's most important harbour town, and its lagoon are situated
only 30km south of Swakopmund. Motor boat and catamaran cruises take visitors
into arm-length proximity of Cape fur-seals, pelicans and cormorants, and the
absolute stars of this watery world, the Bottlenose and endemic Benguela or
Heavyside Dolphins that call the lagoon home. Occasionally, whales may be seen
out at sea, and the odd Mola-Mola (sun fish) taking advantage of a boat's bow
wave to drift just below the water surface in its peculiar side-ways tilt.
Land-based
sightseeing of the largest breeding colony of fur-seals in the southern
hemisphere is possible at Cape Cross, situated approx. 120km north of
Swakopmund, on the Skeleton Coast. Up to about 120000 seals of all age groups
may be observed from close quarters, with black-backed jackals moving about
between them in search of an easy meal of still-born pups and deceased adults.
Very rarely does one see the brown hyenas in brought daylight that also patrol
the colony but both these scavenger species
play a vital role in maintaining the balance of this fragile ecological system.
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