After the desert and the dry savannah and scrubland of Etosha, Tsumeb is a veritable oasis. The main road into town is lined with big palm trees and the streets are lined with Jacaranda trees blooming in brilliant purple. Add to that general greenery and some Bouganvillea and you start to get the picture. It seems this town gets a high rainfall for Namibia.
We checked into MouseBird Backpackers and Camping which was very friendly, comfortable and homey. Lightning and thunder heralded a heavy rainfall (rain, yay!) not long after dark and we sat up until the small hours talking with Paul, a Namibian pharma rep who drove the entire country every fortnight and had lots of interesting things to say about the country he loves. Just as we were retiring for the night he got a call from his best friend in Walvis Bay - who'd beed tied up in his home and robbed, could Paul come around... (he's okay though).
Today after buying some new tyres for the Landy, we took a drive to see an enormous meteorite that dropped to earth about 800 000 years ago. It looks like a big rock, about three meters long and one meter high, but you can see under the rust, bright silver metal (about 80% iron). Tsumeb certainly has strange weather - we were driving into another thunderstorm on our way to the meteorite and it started hailing with stones as big as marbles!
We checked into MouseBird Backpackers and Camping which was very friendly, comfortable and homey. Lightning and thunder heralded a heavy rainfall (rain, yay!) not long after dark and we sat up until the small hours talking with Paul, a Namibian pharma rep who drove the entire country every fortnight and had lots of interesting things to say about the country he loves. Just as we were retiring for the night he got a call from his best friend in Walvis Bay - who'd beed tied up in his home and robbed, could Paul come around... (he's okay though).
Today after buying some new tyres for the Landy, we took a drive to see an enormous meteorite that dropped to earth about 800 000 years ago. It looks like a big rock, about three meters long and one meter high, but you can see under the rust, bright silver metal (about 80% iron). Tsumeb certainly has strange weather - we were driving into another thunderstorm on our way to the meteorite and it started hailing with stones as big as marbles!
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