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  • 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…
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Skeleton Coast

    Anyone who has heard of Namibia has undoubtedly heard of her rugged and often deadly coastline – the eerily named Skeleton Coast. Unsurprisingly the name derives from the fact that this inaccessible stretch of coast was littered with skeletons, ship and whale alike! Two of the most famous shipwrecks along the Namibian coast are the

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    The Skeleton Coast
  • A Woman needs the Desert like a Lion needs a Bicycle

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    As Christine, our heroic reservations team manager, trains for probably the biggest challenge of her life & amp;ndash; a 369km, 24 hour, mountain bike race from Windhoek to the coast, it’s probably worth taking a moment to consider the trials & amp; tribulations that earlier cyclists encountered on the African continent. For no matter how

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  • World Giraffe Day 21st June 2014

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    Seeing as this month sees the first ‘World Giraffe Day’ on the 21st June – what better day than the longest night of the year to celebrate the longest necked animal (OK – DAY for those of you in the Northern hemisphere) As ATI Holidays is incredibly proud to be a sponsor of the World

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    World Giraffe Day 21st June 2014