March 19th 1813 Saw The Birth Of David Livingstone In Blantyre.

March 19th 1813 saw the birth of David Livingstone in Blantyre.

Like my last post about Alexander, Livingstone is another figure that is well known and not easy to make a fresh post about, arguably the most important European explorer to ever brave the interior of Africa. Dozens of places in Africa and the world now bare his name. While many had established cities and colonies on the coasts of Africa, Livingstone was the first to undertake great expeditions to the interior. Contracting many diseases, creating a treatment for malaria, and striving for the abolition of slavery are just a few of his many achievements.

  From the age of 10, he worked at the local cotton mill in Blantyre on 12 hour shifts, thankfully, he had aspirations to greater things in life. During one of his many expeditions, David Livingstone became the first foreigner to see the fabled Mosi-oa-Tunya waterfalls, not recognise the name? Well Livingstone christened them Victoria Falls.

  While known as “Africa’s greatest missionary,” he was almost anything but. He is said to have had only one African convert — Sechele. Sechele was chief of the Kwena people of Botswana. Despite his conversion, Sechele still practiced polygamy and even after divorcing his other wives, maintained traditional practices before Livingstone gave up on him!

Livingstone was a staunch abolitionist and campaigned extensively for the cessation of the slave trade. He also felt it was his God-given mission to explore Africa and develop the continent and that only through trade (and fair trade practices) would the economy of slavery be so disrupted that it would eventually cease to exist.

After Livingstone’s death in 1873, his body and personal journals were shipped all the way back “home” by Chuma and Susi, two of his long term attendants. Today, his body is interred at Westminster Abbey in London. His heart, both figuratively and literally, remains in Africa however, buried under a Mvula tree. David Livingstone left the world as one of the greatest explorers of all time. There are literally dozens of cities, towns, monuments, schools, and other buildings named after him all over Africa and the world.

  Many of us heard about Livingstone when we were children, we might not remember a lot about him but I’ll bet the vast majority of us can say we now the phrase by H.M. Stanley “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

Pics are statues of David Livingstone at the Zimbabwe side of  Victoria Falls., and in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Pelican Point Lodge is a destination on its own, rather than just a stopover at the coast. The Pelican Point Lodge is a lighthouse oasis built upon Namibia’s most famous sandspit. Within the small structural confines are ten private suites, each of which offers a slightly different view of the point and/or interior aesthetic.

Surrounded by the bruteness of the Atlantic Ocean and the calm waters of Walvis Bay, Pelican Point Lodge is situated on the tip of the Pelican Point Peninsula in the Dorob National Park, and is therefore in the epic centre with all Marine focussed activities the Namibian Skeleton Coast has to offer. Stretching over endless beaches, one can watch the ghostly mist roll into the lagoon, with ships looming mysteriously in the distance.

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Die Pelican Point Lodge ist ein Reiseziel für sich und nicht nur ein Zwischenstopp an der Küste.

Die Pelican Point Lodge ist eine Leuchtturmoase auf Namibias berühmtestem Sandstreifen. Innerhalb der kleinen strukturellen Grenzen befinden sich zehn private Suiten, von denen jede eine etwas andere Sicht auf den Point und / oder die Innenästhetik bietet.

Die Pelican Point Lodge ist von der Brutalität des Atlantischen Ozeans und dem ruhigen Wasser der Walvis Bay umgeben und befindet sich an der Spitze der Pelican Point-Halbinsel im Dorob-Nationalpark. Sie befindet sich daher im epischen Zentrum aller maritimen Aktivitäten das die namibischen Skelett Küste zu bieten hat.

Über endlose Strände kann man den gespenstischen Nebel in die Lagune rollen sehen, in dessen Ferne sich auf mysteriöse Weise Schiffe abzeichnen.

The Liebig Ghost House was originally built during the German colonial period in 1912-13 to house the farm managers of the Karl Liebig Company, which specialised in cattle breeding. The Liebig Company owned most of the commercial farming land in the Kuiseb River basin upper catchment and was formed in 1907 by the Deutsche Farmgesellschaft of South-West Africa. Liebig Co bought large areas of land on a nationwide scale - in order to establish a cattle farming and meat processing industry in the country.  Liebig House was built in true German architectural style. The house was an important stopover for travellers between Windhoek and the Atlantic coast and occupied by the director of the Liebig Company.

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Das Liebig-Geisterhaus wurde ursprünglich in der deutschen Kolonialzeit (1912-13) gebaut, um die Betriebsleiter der auf die Viehzucht spezialisierten Firma Karl Liebig unterzubringen. Die Liebig Company besaß den größten Teil des kommerziellen Ackerlandes im oberen Einzugsgebiet des Kuiseb-Beckens und wurde 1907 von der Deutschen Farmgesellschaft in Südwestafrika gegründet. Liebig Co. kaufte landesweit große Landflächen - um eine Viehzucht- und Fleischverarbeitungsindustrie im Land aufzubauen. Das Liebig-Haus wurde im deutschen Architekturstil erbaut. Das Haus war ein wichtiger Zwischenstopp für Reisende zwischen Windhoek und der Atlantikküste und wurde vom Direktor der Liebig Company bewohnt.

HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY ☘️ ☘️ ☘️

Botswana ist ein weites Binnenland mit einem Umfang von circa 582 000 Quadratkilometern. Zwei Drittel des Landes bestehen aus der Kalahari Wüste. Sehenswürdigkeiten sind unter anderem der Chobe Nationalpark, das Moremi Wildtierreservat, das Okavongo Delta, die Linyanti Sümpfe, die Makgadikgadi Pfannen, das Zentralkalahari Wildtierreservat, Tuli Block und der Kgalagandi Transfrontier Park.

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Botswana is a vast land-locked area of approximately 582,000 square kilometres. Two-thirds of the country is covered by the Kalahari Desert. Places of interest are the Chobe National Park, Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Okavango Delta, Linyanti Swamp, Makgadikgadi Pans, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Tuli Block and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.

At N/a’an ku sê those animals who, for various reasons, need to remain in captivity, are given the fullest, most enriched lives possible. We firmly believe that it is vital to both their physical and emotional wellbeing and development to constantly encourage their natural instincts and nurture their inherent behavior – a responsibility that we cannot shirk.

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Bei N / a'an ku sê spielt die spielerische Beschäftigung eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Stimulierung sowohl der körperlichen als auch der kognitiven Fähigkeiten der Tiere, die in Gefangenschaft bleiben müssen, sowie derjenigen, deren bevorstehende Freilassung in die Wildnis Namibias die Förderung ihrer Instinkte erforderlich macht.