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In transit now. spent 2 days and one night at Okapuka - a huge
private game park, incredible. At the Walvis ride I met a woman Ingebruk
(sp?) a transplanted Norwegian who came here with here husband 9 years
ago to start the horse safari businees at the park. He left, she's still
here making a go of it. Hard working and spirited and gutsy. She owns a
piece of land in the park, has 30+ arabian horses, and does horse safaris
into the park.  (
www.okapuka.com is her
website).  We went riding yesterday - saw giraffe, springbok,
gemsbok (orynx), wildebeast, hartebeast, several other game animals whose
names I can't recall, white rhino (and we got close enough to them that a
charge was looking likely - so a hasty retreat). zebra, crocodiles,
jackals... all from horseback, incredible. This morning we took Chip (the
rover) into the mountains - fantastic scenery, grazing herds of mountain
zebra, oryx, etc etc. (I'm already scheming to organize a ride there next
year :) 
 
Mike picked me up today, a quick tour of Windhoek - capital city -
220,000 people - bright, clean, modern. Lunch at his ranch (a 100 year
old farm that he recently purchased) - then off to the east to visit some
of the arabian breeders and see their programs. There's only phoneline
internet here (at best) and maybe not even that - so I don't know if I'll
be checking in regularly, or at all :) 
 
beautiful country - Namibia.
 
later - 
 
steph