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| NAMIBIA Trip details : • Stop 1- Usakos A night at the Bahnhof Hotel in Usakos. The owner has a small mineral shop on the premises with some nice specimens. That evening we will have a wild game buffet dinner in the courtyard which includes oryx, kudu, and osterich. • Stop 2 - Tubusis Visit the African village where the Erongo miners live. The very friendly villagers are happy to see us, sell rocks, and show us around. See how the average Africans live, plus buy aquamarine, schorl, garnet, smokey quartz, and fluorite. • Stop 3-Uis, Brandberg Mining Camp We spend two nights at the White Lady B&B in Uis at this very pleasant B&B; with thatched roofs, pool, A/C. At night with the lights out, you can see the southern sky in all its glory. We spend the day in the Namib Desert visiting the Brandberg mining camp. These miners live in very primitive conditions so they can mine for amethyst, prehnite, calcite, and epidote.Many of the quartz crystals are fensters or anhydro. • Stop 4- Omaruru, Otjiwarongo We stop in Omaruru to visit a dealer who sells the very best quality of schorl and aquamarine. Great rocks at great prices. • Stop 5-Cheetah Conservancy, Okorusu At 8:00 am the next morning we visit the Cheetah Conservancy to see the Cheetahs for their morning run. We actually go inside the pens with a guide; very exciting! In the afternoon we visit the large and famous Okorusu fluorite mine.The chief metallurgist gives us a mine tour, then he takes us to the specimen shed where you can buy all the fluorite you could ever want. We overnight at the Makalani Hotel in Tsumeb. • Stop 6- Tsumeb In the morning we go to the Hoba meteorite which is the largest intact meteorite in the world. The afternoon is spent in Tsumeb. Although this most famous of mines in the mineral collecting hobby is closed, you can still visit the headframe, town, and mineral museum. Mid afternoon we start the short drive to Etosha. • Stop 7- Etosha National Park For the next two nights we stay at an Etosha Park safari lodge. Etosha is famous for its animal viewing: elephant, rhino, zebra, wildebeest, impala, springbok, lion, giraffe, warthog, and leopard. During the day we drive the park viewing wildlife and at night there is a lighted watering hole next to the park where you can sit and view the animals coming in for water. • Stop 8-Hentis Bay After we leaving the park, we drive to Hentis Bay on the coast to view a spectacular seal colony. With close to 100,000 seals, they cover the rocky coast for almost a kilometer. You can get within 30 feet of the seals. • Stop 9- Swakopmund From here we venture to the skeleton coast shipwrecks and the famous coastal sand dunes just a mile south. There are several rock dealers here where you can get lots of Namibian stuff including shattuckite and dioptase. • Stop 10- Spitzkoppe Mountain Our next stop is at Spitzkoppe Mountain which is famous for topaz.There are dozens of roadside dealers where the miner's wives sell some real goodies: topaz, aquamarine, schorl, amethyst, dioptase, etc. |
| Cost is approx. $5,000.00 and includes all expenses other than your evening meal. |
| The next AFRICAN MINERAL SAFARI will be held May 15 - 29 , 2010 . See lower portion of page for the itenerary . |
| Be sure to check out the NAMIBIA pages above for photos of when I went on this same mineral Safari ! If you sign up for the Mineral Safari , you'll get to visit these exact same locations as shown in the Namibia pages above ! |
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