Cape Town to Walvis by Car

On our trip last year we decided that instead of taking the 2 hour flight up to Walvis Bay, we were going to drive up. Man talk about a long trip. Our trip started in Cape Town at about 4 in the morning and ended in Walvis the next day. We had a stop over in Okahandja! If we had driven through it would have been something like 20 hours in the car. (I'll take you through the trip as we venture along through this blog.) 

Its a long long long trip by car but it's worth doing at least once.. The scenery along the road was so beautiful and one can get a true sense of the vastness of the country when driving along the B1 highway. There's nothing but sandy gravel plains as far ass you can see and hardly a car on the road, (granted we were travelling up on the 27 December when most sane people are at home recovering from Christmas...)

I look back on that trip now as the point at which I realized exactly how naive and ignorant I was about the Country of Namibia. For me when ever i heard about living in Namibia images of camels and oasis came to mind... Sad to say, I though the same way as most foreign tourist think about South Africa. But I'm happy to say i was pleasantly surprised.


Walvis Bay was magically and climbing Dune 7 was one of the highlights of the trip.

Dune 7 from the parking area

MiTravco.Namibia

Okay maybe I should explain what MiTravco.Namibia is first before we go any further.

About 4 years ago my partner and I decided that we wanted to enter into the tourism industry, so we decided that an advertising platform for various tourism related companies will be the best and easiest way into the industry.  (Check it out www.mitravco.com)

Now before you say "Oh no,not another online directory!!" yes we do online advertising for the likes of accommodation establishments and such but we are more that that. We class our selves as an advertising platform for these companies a well as the countries that we work in. A bit later on i will enlighten you on some of the plans we have for our company.

So why Mitravco.Namibia you ask? We decided that to better personalize the  attention we give each country we needed to seperate them by having a dedicated website for each country, And Namibia was tackled first. And with it nearing completion out launch date for the website is December 1st 2010.. so watch this space.

So this blog will act as a update forum for the website as well as an informative guide to Namibia brought on by my love for the country.