NAMIBIA

                             I spent few days in Windhoek Namibia, my husband arrived the on his
                             cycling race from Cairo to Cape Town...so I did not really had time to
                             visit anthing else than Windhoek...

                           The two trucks that carries all the bags and it has a kitchen as well...

                 In Windhoek itself there is not much to see but the surrounding mountains are beautiful
                  and Namibia has lot to offer for tourists...

       11.000km behind them still almost 1000km to go until the finish line in Cape Town, South Africa...

                                                                    The from the sky

                                                              ...And the Atlantic coast ....

VICTORIA FALLS HOTEL...THE HISTORICAL LANDMARK...

         The sun had just rised and it was shining the terrace that overlooks the Victoria falls with the bridge

      It still have a old colonial feeling, in this hotel the British Kings and Queens have spent their "holidays"

                                                      Collage of some old souvernirs at the hotel

                                The view of the sunrise at 6 o'clock from the hotel garden

                                                                        The Bathroom

                                                                        Close to the monster

                                                           An other part of the Victoria falls

                                                        Boat trip on the upper part of Zambezi river

                            Quite calm looking Zambezi river, but at the end the cloud is the water fall

                                                          Our sun downer drinks on the boat

                    The famous sun down over the Zambezi river between Zimbabwe and Zambia

VICTORIA FALLS

Victoria Falls one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. A magical place that I had a opportunity to spend 4 days ones again, I have been there 2 times before and now I went there to meet my husband, who is still riding the bicycle from Cairo to Cape Town. I flu from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls airport, the town also is called Victoria Falls in Zimbabwean side. Zimbabwe and Zambia are sharing the Vic Falls, the falls are actually part of the border line between these two countries.

When the plane is landing you can notice a cloud on the ground level and that indicates the falls from the air...Zambezi river is a large and long river with full of wild and bird life...

In the afternoon when the sun shines from the right angle to the misty cloud lifted up by the power of the water running down on the falls, you can see a rainbow, at least during an hour just under the bridge, it really

We only hear sad stories of Zimbabwe on the news... But I must say that Zimbabwean are very nice people and you feel safe to walk around in the town of Victoria Falls, I walked from the hotel to the border to the passport control, (you need visas for both countries paid in cash US dollars) and then crossed the border on the bridge to Zambia...

Lots of traffic crossed this bridge, people on foot, cars, trucks and trains... Goods for Zambia from South Africa and minerals from mines from Zambia...

This area has lots of history Dr Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls and he met Stanley who has been searching  for Livingstone for many years... The town just few kms after the border in Zambia,  actually was named after Livingstone

At the border on the bridge you can do bungee jumping or just carry on walking on the other side and look at the side of the falls and then on the other side you can see the Zambezi river gorge...This guy is Peter, he is Zambian and we walked with me on the bridge trying to sell me some souvenirs, Mosi-oa-Tunya is the name that the native people of this region calls the Victoria Falls, it means "the smoke that thunders"...So this Peter off course had a brother who was a taxi driver and I needed to catch a taxi after getting my Zambian visa to go and meet my husband who was busy arriving just 3-4 kms away from the border post. I was told that the taxi will cost about 5 US$, but his brother told me that no, it will be 15 dollars, so I told him that he is trying to rip me off and went to see the two European looking guys who where at the passport control behind me. They were just busy getting in to their pick-up car and I asked if they could give me a lift, because this taxi was ripping me of, so I had a nice short lift with a native white Zimbabwean gentlemen and we manage to find the arrival of the Cairo to Cape Town Race...

HOW A BICYCLE CAN CHANGE ONE PERSONS LIFE...

Today in Nairobi, the Tour d'Afrique gave away bicycles as donations, which is part of the cycle race that my husband is doing at the moment. Have a look on http://www.africanride.blogspot.com/

AFRICAN ART

On the shelve a handpainted plate by my ceramic factory in Cape Town... Design by Helka Björnsson...

                                    African shopping bags, painted by South African township artists

ZEBRAS

AFRICAN ELEPHANT

Some of my photos taken in Kruger Park, South Africa

ICE STATUE

These few days have been hectic. My husband left this morning for his cycling race to Africa. From Cairo to Cape Town in four month and 12000km. See the blog http://www.africanride.blogspot.com/  or click on the photo on the right side bar.

So from now on I will have plenty time of my own and I will do some nice things for this blog...

This is a statue I past  today on my way to the shops. It was -5 degrees Celsius in down town Andorra la Vella so the water has frozen on the second part of the statue... It is a different every year, depending of the weather conditions.

RUNNING A NEW BLOG

Today I have set up a new blog that I will be managing for several month...My husband will be taking part of Tour d'Afrique race from Cairo to Cape Town, 12 000 km, 10 countries and bike donation for local communities... The race starts in January 2010, but the blog will  first follow his preparations for the long trip ahead...