When Jaka was 6 months old we went traveling and camping around the island of Corsica in France and since then we travel every year in more distant and exotic parts of the world. But it turned out that this was just the beginning of a different, more intense type of travel. to name just a few.Д®verybody was telling us that when we will have kids, our travels will become just a distant memory.

We are a very active family, always on the run, we enjoy being in the nature, traveling, adventures and experiencing new things.Д«efore our kid was born, we backpacked a good part of Asia, Africa and America, we visited some remote parts of Madagascar, Mali, Ghana, Togo, border triangle between Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya, Oman, Tibet, China, Myanmar. The Himba, occupy the country's far northwest, and the San live in the east.Hi, we are a family from Slovenia - Matjaz (Mat), Ana and our 6-year old son Jaka Corel. Through their architecture and museums, LГјderitz, Swakopmund and Windhoek tell a complicated story of colonial settlement and oppression, while elsewhere the many traditional people who call Namibia home tell a different tale altogether. Namibia's human story is every bit as interesting as that written in the rocks, soil and sand of the country. Then there's the Kalahari, the Nyae Nyae ConservancyвЂ¦ Human Story Away to the north, along the Skeleton Coast to the Angolan border, shipwrecks along the shore only heighten the sensation that humankind is here very much at the mercy of the elements. From Walvis Bay to LГјderitz, the desert that forms the Sperrgebiet National Park is almost a truly trackless waste for much of its territory, but tours out of the latter can take you across it. This tends to happen most often along the country's barren, sandswept coastline. Remote WildernessДЄt some point during your stay in Namibia, you may well look around and wonder if you've fallen off the end of the earth.

This being Namibia, there are private reserves (Okonjima and Erindi premier among them) as well as game farms that serve as havens for rescued wildlife. Over in the Caprivi Strip, the wildlife is returning, with Bwabwata and Nkasa Rupara becoming wonderfully rich parks to explore.

Damaraland is a wonderful place to see desert-adapted elephants and lions, and also happens to host Africa's largest population of free-ranging rhinos вЂ“ rhino tracking is a real highlight here. Two other areas are emerging as complements to Etosha. Etosha National Park belongs in the elite wildlife-watching destinations вЂ“ big cats, elephants, black rhinos and plains game in abundance. Make no mistake: Namibia is one of Southern Africa's best places to watch wildlife, at least in the country's north. With rivers and wetlands in the Caprivi Strip and the endless gold-grass plains of the Kalahari, it's difficult to think of an iconic African landscape that Namibia doesn't possess. Inland, running through the heart of the country, a spine of mountains creates glorious scenery вЂ“ the Naukluft Mountains, the Brandberg, Spitzkoppe, Damaraland and the jaw-dropping Fish River Canyon. The country's name derives from its (and the world's) oldest desert, the Namib, and there are few more stirring desert realms on the planet вЂ“В from the stunning sand sea and perfect dead-tree valleys at Sossusvlei to the otherworldliness of sand dunes plunging down to the ocean at Sandwich Harbour and the Skeleton Coast. Natural BeautyДЇew countries in Africa can match Namibia's sheer natural beauty. If Namibia is 'Africa for beginners', as is often said, what a wonderful place to start.

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