Our drive to our next destination was estimated at only a couple of hours, so before we left we went in search of an abandoned old car that I’d read about. As we were in no rush we took the time to photograph the scenery and another wild horse who came right up to us. I was photographing the landscape […]
After we left Kolmanskop our accommodation for the night was an hour’s drive away on a good tarmac road with hardly any traffic and a mountain range in front of us. I knew that we would be passing through an area where wild horses roam. There are various theories as to how they came to be there. One is that a ship ran […]
Our second destination was a three hour drive away and was the deserted mining town of Kolmanskop. When I volunteered in Namibia in 2013 I met Gemma, who worked there, and we stayed in touch afterwards via Facebook. She took a road trip whilst there and when I saw her photos of Kolmanskop I knew I had to see it […]
Over a year ago I decided that I wanted to revisit Namibia, but as a tourist rather than a volunteer. I’d seen so many photographs of various places here that I decided it had to be done. As I knew that I would spend a lot of time taking photos on this trip, I invited four other people to come with me […]
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Leaving the laid back Caribbean/Jungle we headed to San José for two nights before going home. Arriving in San José last night was quite depressing as our senses were assaulted by traffic jams, advertising hoardings, people scurrying everywhere, and a much cooler temperature. Today we’ve spent the day on a trip to a coffee plantation, a volcano, and waterfalls. On the coffee […]
Day 10-12. We are now further down the Caribbean coast and it has a very different vibe here – an interesting mix of Caribbean and Costa Rican. We’re staying a couple of kilometres outside of the small town, and as everybody seems to get around by hiring bikes, we’ve done the same. They took a bit of getting used to as […]
Day 6. A 6.45 a.m. pickup from our lodge, followed by a 4 hour journey by road, and another 2 hours by boat. We are now in Tortuguero which is only accessible via a boat trip through the jungle. It feels very ‘Indiana Jones’! Our lodge has the river on one side, and the Caribbean sea on the other. […]
Day 3 and we left early to travel to Arenal – an area dominated by a volcano. The journey was in a cramped minibus on unmade roads – gravel tracks for over 2 hours constantly up and down the hillsides. The scenery however was stunning and almost Alpine. We then had to cross a lake on a 45 minute boat ride.As […]
Well getting here was a challenge – our flight was delayed at Heathrow, which meant we had less than 30 minutes from our ‘plane landing in Madrid to the departure of our next flight. We were seated near the back which meant waiting for everyone to disembark before we could get off, and then we ran the length of the […]
Mondays are market day in the nearest town which is a 30 minute drive away. We had asked if we could join the vehicles going to get provisions, so we spent an hour wandering round. This is definitely not a tourist place! I took the photo of the car as it amused me to see that somebody was having […]