![This is the sequel of Cycling in Namibia part 1 (North), with 1400 new kilometers from Windhoek to the Orange river, bordering South Africa, in July and August 2014. This […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/04/vidNamSouth_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange")
![Namibia is the country I’ve spent the most time in, about five months. And I made two videos, one for the half north of Windhoek, with amazing scenery, and one for the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/04/featured_vidNamNorth_snapshot-150x150.jpg "Cycling Namibia – Part 1 (North) – From the Kunene to Windhoek")
![I have barely seen any greenery in a long time, actually since I left Ovamboland in the north. Namibia has only two perennial rivers, the Cunene and the Orange, and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/03/featured-orange-river_6166-150x150.jpg "Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river")
![What I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_aus-railways-horses-150x150.jpg "Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses")
![Going back from Lüderitz, up to Aus, on that same an unique B4 road, I will this time stop often. Anyway, this time, the 120 km stretch with the gradient […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_kolmanskop-150x150.jpg "Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history")
![I find very interesting to learn about the Sperrgebiet for all the mystery that surrounds it. I already wrote a bit about it when I cycled through it from Aus. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_luderitz-peninsula-150x150.jpg "Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula")
![What about a trip into the Sperrgebiet? With all the luck I had so far (not really, but the relative lack of bad luck makes me quite lucky), it’s not […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/02/featured_road-luderitz-150x150.jpg "Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world")
![In Namibia more than in any other country, my first thought, as soon as I get out of the tent, is to squeeze my tires. And this morning again, my […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2015/01/featured_D707-150x150.jpg "The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness")
![This morning in the desert of the remote Sesriem is dedicated to bike maintenance. It’s not because I am so close to my goal now, with the hardest adventure and […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/12/featured_southern.namib_-150x150.jpg "The Southern Namib")
![Sand and cycling usually don’t go together. But I couldn’t miss the main attraction of Namibia, the highest sand dunes in the world in Sossusvlei. The dunes are located about […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/09/featured_sossusvlei_4882-150x150.jpg "Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand")
![Solitaire is not solitaire as in “I am alone”, it is simply my next town in the Namib desert. But yes, indeed, it’s a remote lonely town. I tried to […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/10/featured_solitaire_4694_Namibia-150x150.jpg "Solitaire")
![September 2014: I have already completed my cycling journey, safe and sound until Cape Town, but I didn’t finish blogging yet. It’s been two months since I left Windhoek and, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/09/featured_spreetshoogte_4497-150x150.jpg "Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass")
![And another kilomilestone, 25000 KM today! It’s now less than 900 km to Cape Town as the crow flies. I’m in Aus, a village in Southern Namibia, the first village […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/20140726_25000km_s-150x150.jpg "25000 KM !")
![The C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_boshuapass_4226-150x150.jpg "C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road")
![The desert between Swakopmund and Windhoek, part of it in the Namib-Naukluft national park, is hiding lots of uranium. To continue with the mining in Namibia, having already visited two […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_moonlandscape_4043-150x150.jpg "Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert")
![July 14th, and another 23°28′, but in the southern hemisphere this time: I just passed the Tropic of Capricorn. I had met the Tropic of Cancer in Western Sahara in […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/20140714_001_tropic-of-capricorn-150x150.jpg "Tropic of Capricorn")
![Waking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_salt-road_3757-150x150.jpg "Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast")
![I’m ready for another expedition on a very little used track into Damaraland. My visit of the old Uis tin mine is leading me to another mine, the Brandberg West […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_brandbergwest_3251-150x150.jpg "Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West")
![I have no legs today when I wake up, despite yesterday being short (50 KM) and rather sightseeing than cycling. Maybe the Namibian tourist season is picking up, because the […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/07/featured_brandberg_2856-150x150.jpg "The desert elephants of the Brandberg")
![“When you leave, come to me directly instead of going to the reception, okay?“, tells me the security guard of the Khorixas NWR rest camp as I am packing up. […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/featured_twyfelfontein_2734-150x150.jpg "Twyfelfontein, towards dryer lands")
![I have received these last days two surprising emails from people who have found my blog, illustrating the magic of the internet. First, from Eric, who grew up in Cameroon, […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/featured_vingerklip_2532-150x150.jpg "Vingerklip")
![I have lost maybe seven or eight kilos since the last time I weighed myself, which I think is as far back as Monrovia. I was surprised when I played […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/featured-waterberg_2271-150x150.jpg "A meteorite around the Waterberg")
![And 24000 KM in the Swakop valley on the way to Windhoek. I woke up today in my tent in what is called “moon landscape”. Luckily I didn’t get a […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/06/20140609_001-150x150.jpg "24000 KM !")
![Namibia is not Gabon. You can’t just cycle through the Etosha National Park like I did through the Lope, with a few people saying “oh, and if there are elephants […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_etosha-elephant_1945-150x150.jpg "Etosha National Park")
![When I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_tsumeb_IMG0425-150x150.jpg "Tsumeb")
![More than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_oshakati-boring-road-DSC_1457-150x150.jpg "Ovamboland, the boring road")
![My break at the Kunene river lodge is like living another life. In a short week staying there, I enjoy delicious breakfasts over the Cunene river and I can blog facing […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured_himba-IMG_0220-150x150.jpg "The Himba of Namibia")
![After a long break in Tsumeb, I am on the road again and reached 23000 KM between Otjiwarongo and Outjo. I am on my way to the coast and Swakopmund […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/20140522_004_23000km_s-150x150.jpg "23000 KM !")
![I was doing my business on a large rock this morning, with a view on the Ruacana dam lake, when a small crocodile ran past me! I must have surprised […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/05/featured-ruacana_1324-150x150.jpg "Ruacana")
![I am reaching 22000 KM just as I exit Angola after close to 3000 kilometers in the country. I think I took all the worst roads I could there. Angola […]](https://freewheely.com/wp-content/data/2014/03/20140322_004_22000km_s-150x150.jpg "22000 KM !")
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- C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
- 25000 KM !
- Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass
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- Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand
- The Southern Namib
- The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness
- Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world
- Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula
- Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history
- Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses
- Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river
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![This is the sequel of Cycling in Namibia part 1 (North), with 1400 new kilometers from Windhoek to the Orange river, bordering South Africa, in July and August 2014. This […]](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20115%20115'%3E%3C/svg%3E "Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange")
Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange
Posted on April 21, 2015 | 3 Comments This is the sequel of Cycling in Namibia part 1 (North), with 1400 new kilometers from Windhoek to the Orange river, bordering South Africa, in July and August 2014. This […] Cycling Namibia – Part 1 (North) – From the Kunene to Windhoek
Posted on April 7, 2015 | 8 Comments Namibia is the country I’ve spent the most time in, about five months. And I made two videos, one for the half north of Windhoek, with amazing scenery, and one for the […] Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river
Posted on March 26, 2015 | 2 Comments I have barely seen any greenery in a long time, actually since I left Ovamboland in the north. Namibia has only two perennial rivers, the Cunene and the Orange, and […] Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses
Posted on March 9, 2015 | 5 Comments What I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […] Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history
Posted on February 18, 2015 | 8 Comments Going back from Lüderitz, up to Aus, on that same an unique B4 road, I will this time stop often. Anyway, this time, the 120 km stretch with the gradient […] Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula
Posted on February 13, 2015 | 2 Comments I find very interesting to learn about the Sperrgebiet for all the mystery that surrounds it. I already wrote a bit about it when I cycled through it from Aus. […] Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world
Posted on February 9, 2015 | 7 Comments What about a trip into the Sperrgebiet? With all the luck I had so far (not really, but the relative lack of bad luck makes me quite lucky), it’s not […] The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness
Posted on January 27, 2015 | 13 Comments In Namibia more than in any other country, my first thought, as soon as I get out of the tent, is to squeeze my tires. And this morning again, my […] The Southern Namib
Posted on January 7, 2015 | 5 Comments This morning in the desert of the remote Sesriem is dedicated to bike maintenance. It’s not because I am so close to my goal now, with the hardest adventure and […] Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand
Posted on December 16, 2014 | 3 Comments Sand and cycling usually don’t go together. But I couldn’t miss the main attraction of Namibia, the highest sand dunes in the world in Sossusvlei. The dunes are located about […] Solitaire
Posted on November 4, 2014 | No Comments Solitaire is not solitaire as in “I am alone”, it is simply my next town in the Namib desert. But yes, indeed, it’s a remote lonely town. I tried to […] Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 4 Comments September 2014: I have already completed my cycling journey, safe and sound until Cape Town, but I didn’t finish blogging yet. It’s been two months since I left Windhoek and, […] 25000 KM !
Posted on July 27, 2014 | 8 Comments And another kilomilestone, 25000 KM today! It’s now less than 900 km to Cape Town as the crow flies. I’m in Aus, a village in Southern Namibia, the first village […] C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
Posted on July 20, 2014 | 2 Comments The C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […] Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert
Posted on July 15, 2014 | 2 Comments The desert between Swakopmund and Windhoek, part of it in the Namib-Naukluft national park, is hiding lots of uranium. To continue with the mining in Namibia, having already visited two […] Tropic of Capricorn
Posted on July 14, 2014 | 1 Comment July 14th, and another 23°28′, but in the southern hemisphere this time: I just passed the Tropic of Capricorn. I had met the Tropic of Cancer in Western Sahara in […] Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 6 Comments Waking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […] Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 10 Comments I’m ready for another expedition on a very little used track into Damaraland. My visit of the old Uis tin mine is leading me to another mine, the Brandberg West […] The desert elephants of the Brandberg
Posted on July 1, 2014 | 14 Comments I have no legs today when I wake up, despite yesterday being short (50 KM) and rather sightseeing than cycling. Maybe the Namibian tourist season is picking up, because the […] Twyfelfontein, towards dryer lands
Posted on June 27, 2014 | 1 Comment “When you leave, come to me directly instead of going to the reception, okay?“, tells me the security guard of the Khorixas NWR rest camp as I am packing up. […] Vingerklip
Posted on June 23, 2014 | 3 Comments I have received these last days two surprising emails from people who have found my blog, illustrating the magic of the internet. First, from Eric, who grew up in Cameroon, […] A meteorite around the Waterberg
Posted on June 19, 2014 | 3 Comments I have lost maybe seven or eight kilos since the last time I weighed myself, which I think is as far back as Monrovia. I was surprised when I played […] 24000 KM !
Posted on June 10, 2014 | 1 Comment And 24000 KM in the Swakop valley on the way to Windhoek. I woke up today in my tent in what is called “moon landscape”. Luckily I didn’t get a […] Etosha National Park
Posted on June 2, 2014 | 2 Comments Namibia is not Gabon. You can’t just cycle through the Etosha National Park like I did through the Lope, with a few people saying “oh, and if there are elephants […] Tsumeb
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 2 Comments When I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […] Ovamboland, the boring road
Posted on May 26, 2014 | 5 Comments More than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […] The Himba of Namibia
Posted on May 23, 2014 | 3 Comments My break at the Kunene river lodge is like living another life. In a short week staying there, I enjoy delicious breakfasts over the Cunene river and I can blog facing […] 23000 KM !
Posted on May 22, 2014 | 3 Comments After a long break in Tsumeb, I am on the road again and reached 23000 KM between Otjiwarongo and Outjo. I am on my way to the coast and Swakopmund […] Ruacana
Posted on May 20, 2014 | 4 Comments I was doing my business on a large rock this morning, with a view on the Ruacana dam lake, when a small crocodile ran past me! I must have surprised […] 22000 KM !
Posted on March 22, 2014 | 2 Comments I am reaching 22000 KM just as I exit Angola after close to 3000 kilometers in the country. I think I took all the worst roads I could there. Angola […]
Cycling Namibia – Part 2 (South) – From Windhoek to the Orange
Posted on April 21, 2015 | 3 CommentsThis is the sequel of Cycling in Namibia part 1 (North), with 1400 new kilometers from Windhoek to the Orange river, bordering South Africa, in July and August 2014. This […]Cycling Namibia – Part 1 (North) – From the Kunene to Windhoek
Posted on April 7, 2015 | 8 CommentsNamibia is the country I’ve spent the most time in, about five months. And I made two videos, one for the half north of Windhoek, with amazing scenery, and one for the […]Namibia’s best: cycling along the Orange river
Posted on March 26, 2015 | 2 CommentsI have barely seen any greenery in a long time, actually since I left Ovamboland in the north. Namibia has only two perennial rivers, the Cunene and the Orange, and […]Last days in the Namib desert: railway stations and wild horses
Posted on March 9, 2015 | 5 CommentsWhat I like about the Namib desert and the Sperrgebiet is that, since nobody would want to live there for the lifestyle, every man-made structure carries a part of the […]Kolmanskop ghost town and the Namibian diamonds history
Posted on February 18, 2015 | 8 CommentsGoing back from Lüderitz, up to Aus, on that same an unique B4 road, I will this time stop often. Anyway, this time, the 120 km stretch with the gradient […]Looking for Sperrgebiet diamonds in the Lüderitz peninsula
Posted on February 13, 2015 | 2 CommentsI find very interesting to learn about the Sperrgebiet for all the mystery that surrounds it. I already wrote a bit about it when I cycled through it from Aus. […]Lüderitz, another town at the end of the world
Posted on February 9, 2015 | 7 CommentsWhat about a trip into the Sperrgebiet? With all the luck I had so far (not really, but the relative lack of bad luck makes me quite lucky), it’s not […]The D707, a fashionable notion of remoteness
Posted on January 27, 2015 | 13 CommentsIn Namibia more than in any other country, my first thought, as soon as I get out of the tent, is to squeeze my tires. And this morning again, my […]The Southern Namib
Posted on January 7, 2015 | 5 CommentsThis morning in the desert of the remote Sesriem is dedicated to bike maintenance. It’s not because I am so close to my goal now, with the hardest adventure and […]Sossusvlei, at the top of a world of sand
Posted on December 16, 2014 | 3 CommentsSand and cycling usually don’t go together. But I couldn’t miss the main attraction of Namibia, the highest sand dunes in the world in Sossusvlei. The dunes are located about […]Solitaire
Posted on November 4, 2014 | No CommentsSolitaire is not solitaire as in “I am alone”, it is simply my next town in the Namib desert. But yes, indeed, it’s a remote lonely town. I tried to […]Dropping into the desert via the Spreetshoogte pass
Posted on September 30, 2014 | 4 CommentsSeptember 2014: I have already completed my cycling journey, safe and sound until Cape Town, but I didn’t finish blogging yet. It’s been two months since I left Windhoek and, […]25000 KM !
Posted on July 27, 2014 | 8 CommentsAnd another kilomilestone, 25000 KM today! It’s now less than 900 km to Cape Town as the crow flies. I’m in Aus, a village in Southern Namibia, the first village […]C28, Boshua pass, the roller coaster road
Posted on July 20, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe C28 gravel road I am taking from Swakopmund to Windhoek is dry and tough: less than 10 cars use it every day, but it has very rewarding views. It […]Uranium in the Namib-Naukluft desert
Posted on July 15, 2014 | 2 CommentsThe desert between Swakopmund and Windhoek, part of it in the Namib-Naukluft national park, is hiding lots of uranium. To continue with the mining in Namibia, having already visited two […]Tropic of Capricorn
Posted on July 14, 2014 | 1 CommentJuly 14th, and another 23°28′, but in the southern hemisphere this time: I just passed the Tropic of Capricorn. I had met the Tropic of Cancer in Western Sahara in […]Cycling the salt road on the Skeleton Coast
Posted on July 10, 2014 | 6 CommentsWaking up in the desert is fantastic. As fantastic as it is terrible to find a wind shelter for setting up my tent. Luckily the wind went quiet during […]Mining expedition in the desert of Brandberg West
Posted on July 5, 2014 | 10 CommentsI’m ready for another expedition on a very little used track into Damaraland. My visit of the old Uis tin mine is leading me to another mine, the Brandberg West […]The desert elephants of the Brandberg
Posted on July 1, 2014 | 14 CommentsI have no legs today when I wake up, despite yesterday being short (50 KM) and rather sightseeing than cycling. Maybe the Namibian tourist season is picking up, because the […]Twyfelfontein, towards dryer lands
Posted on June 27, 2014 | 1 Comment“When you leave, come to me directly instead of going to the reception, okay?“, tells me the security guard of the Khorixas NWR rest camp as I am packing up. […]Vingerklip
Posted on June 23, 2014 | 3 CommentsI have received these last days two surprising emails from people who have found my blog, illustrating the magic of the internet. First, from Eric, who grew up in Cameroon, […]A meteorite around the Waterberg
Posted on June 19, 2014 | 3 CommentsI have lost maybe seven or eight kilos since the last time I weighed myself, which I think is as far back as Monrovia. I was surprised when I played […]24000 KM !
Posted on June 10, 2014 | 1 CommentAnd 24000 KM in the Swakop valley on the way to Windhoek. I woke up today in my tent in what is called “moon landscape”. Luckily I didn’t get a […]Etosha National Park
Posted on June 2, 2014 | 2 CommentsNamibia is not Gabon. You can’t just cycle through the Etosha National Park like I did through the Lope, with a few people saying “oh, and if there are elephants […]Tsumeb
Posted on May 29, 2014 | 2 CommentsWhen I stopped for a few nights at the Etosha Café (can be called Etosha Kef with a local touch) in Tsumeb, I didn’t know that I would stay there for […]Ovamboland, the boring road
Posted on May 26, 2014 | 5 CommentsMore than half of the entire Namibian population lives in Ovamboland, on just 6% of the territory. The Ovambo are by far the country’s largest ethnic group, and the term […]The Himba of Namibia
Posted on May 23, 2014 | 3 CommentsMy break at the Kunene river lodge is like living another life. In a short week staying there, I enjoy delicious breakfasts over the Cunene river and I can blog facing […]23000 KM !
Posted on May 22, 2014 | 3 CommentsAfter a long break in Tsumeb, I am on the road again and reached 23000 KM between Otjiwarongo and Outjo. I am on my way to the coast and Swakopmund […]Ruacana
Posted on May 20, 2014 | 4 CommentsI was doing my business on a large rock this morning, with a view on the Ruacana dam lake, when a small crocodile ran past me! I must have surprised […]22000 KM !
Posted on March 22, 2014 | 2 CommentsI am reaching 22000 KM just as I exit Angola after close to 3000 kilometers in the country. I think I took all the worst roads I could there. Angola […]
