Jumé Irmscher

Part II: Swakopmund & The Namib Desert All photos were taken by my husband, Steffen Irmscher and I. You know, thinking back on my time in Namibia I realized that it’s actually quite a mad place. I don’t mean angry. No, the people are lovely, welcoming, and just a delight. I mean, certain things about the country are completely insane, kooky, just tripping on fairy dust. The first thing you notice when reading up on Namibia is that it’s large. I mean, it’s really big. We often found ourselves staying at places where the nearest town was a 2-hour drive away. That’s the first mad thing, right here. If you’re surrounded by dust, huge stretches of nothingness and wild animals – you might want to make sure there are other people nearby in case you find a clan of hyenas in your backyard up to no good, there’s a power outage or your car battery died. Also, the regular rule of thumb is if you drive on the highway you ’ ll  roughly  cover a 100km in an hour. In Namibia, however, y

Namibia has always been a place I wanted to visit, however, it never really placed high on my list of priority exotic countries. I saw it as a location that would always be there, right next door, so to speak, and I can go whenever I wanted. A backup option, if you will.