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…was an extraordinarily close one.
Prior to November 2022 I had never imagined that I would ever find myself so astonishingly near to a wild leopard, let alone that such an experience would prove the least exciting of four leopard encounters, all within a span of about ninety hours.
This post’s photos are in chronological sequence; the first three were taken within a single minute, and the final image’s “moment” occurred a whisker less seven minutes after the first.
Comments closedYour three key needs are all equally urgent: an alcoholic drink, getting your hair “done”, and your clothes washed.
There is a place where all three of those needs could be met, simultaneously, at the same address, early in the day.
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Occasionally, one encounters an “instructive” sign.
Comments closedIn northern Namibia – and just about anywhere else in Southern Africa – the pictured takeaway food outlet’s “alarming” sign would cause no unease whatsoever, nor would its meaning be unclear.
”Russians” – with or without chips – have long been a great favourite of southern Africans, whether “dining out” or “cooking up” in their own homes.
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Looking for a harder-edged, “no-frills” retail therapy experience?
Northern Namibia has a cornucopia of “eminently suitable” venues.
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There is at least one of the world’s “malls” which Paris Hilton has never shopped.
It is surely safe to assume that no visiting North American tourist will ever feel compelled to enter this mall for a dose of “retail therapy”…
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“Retail therapy” may be a flawed, hollow notion, but it has been bought by billions.
It would appear, however, that this kind of message is a little harder to sell to northern Namibians than to Southern Californians.
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Well inland in northern Namibia, fish shops are “astonishingly” common.
As with shebeens, most of them greatly resemble most of them.
This one’s sign, however, proudly denies this reality.
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You like to mix “business” and “pleasure”?
In northern Namibia this is easily achieved.
Many shebeens are multi-purpose establishments.
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The photo (copyright Doug Spencer, taken on 08 November 2022) shows a typical northern Namibian shebeen.
Signage in northern Namibia often provides visitors with delight…and/or surprise, confusion, bewilderment…
You’ll find no superb photography in this single-image series; almost everything in it was shot “on the fly”, through the window of “our” bus, as it zoomed past one one of many thousands of owner-operated businesses.
All were small, in reality.
However, their signs often “talked big”…
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