Author: LightSpeed

  • Ebola – Fact and Fiction

    Ebola is an incredibly scary disease – the stuff of our worst Sci-Fi movie fears.  It is now prevalent in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, it has a high fatality rate, and news reports in the US and Europe make it sound like the entire African continent is on the

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    Ebola – Fact and Fiction
  • May luck be with you…

    …and bring you back up again – This is the traditional miner’s greeting from which the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia derived its motto – ‘Gluck auf’ Tsumeb makes for a great accommodations while taking a self drive to Etosha, as it is the gateway to the Oshikoto region, the closest town to the

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    May luck be with you…
  • LightSpeed launches a WordPress tour importer for Wetu

    LightSpeed has launched a WordPress tour importer that integrates with the Wetu Content System (an online solution for quality, up-to-date content gathered from the travel and tourism industry). Companies using Wetu’s Content API in combination with Bootstrap Tourism (LightSpeed’s Travel Website Solution), will be able to import Virtual Tours, Itineraries and Activities using a few

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  • The Victims of the Namibian Coastline

    Namibia has a total of about 1600km of coastline – roughly 1000 miles and some estimate that there are literally thousands of wrecks littered along the coast, from the oldest recorded one, the Bom Jesus which set sail from Lisbon in 1533, to the more recent wrecks, occurring as recently as 2012. The Dunedin Star,

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    The Victims of the Namibian Coastline
  • Wetu Importer: Saving you time and money

    In 2013, LightSpeed started working with Southern Destinations, a toursim company who needed a WordPress site that could showcase tours and allow their clients to search for information. While working with them, we discovered that there is a need for engaging content and relevant information on travel websites. We also realised that tourism professionals need

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  • Eduard Bohlen – the Land-Locked Shipwreck

    400 meters from the ocean is an unlikely place to find a shipwreck – or so you would think. Welcome to the story of the Eduard Bohlen! Probably the most INTACT and photographed shipwreck along the entire Namibian coastline. There were two ships registered as ‘Eduard Bohlen’ the first was sold to the Ost-Afrika line

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    Eduard Bohlen – the Land-Locked Shipwreck