Königsberger balls at the desert edge.

Double grain in the Bacchus Tavern, draft beer in the brewery in Namibia German entrepreneurs to ensure that their fellow countrymen a little like at home feel. At least until they pig and warthog-Kudu antelope encounter - or the slums on the outskirts of town to visit.

 

Windhoek - The trucks with noisy school children on the loading area is a dust cloud behind him. A group of baboons jumps quickly over the broad sandy slopes. Uwe Schulze Neuhoff must not slow down. The engineer from North Rhine-Westphalia, which is now in Namibia between desert and Naukluft massif a farm as big as the area of Munich has said: "The apes are agile and intelligent. Denen nothing happens."

Warthog, Oryx, Kudu antelopes, and other times more likely to run into the car. Tourists should be very careful driving, especially at night. The German is a particularly adept slopes and desert bar. Therefore, to its drivers and employees of the German Embassy in the four-hour drive away Windhoek. Practiced on difficult stretches of the vast ranch.

On the veranda of the "Ababis" farm dinner will be served. About a dozen tourists from Germany, Switzerland and South Africa are sitting at the long table. Uwe host and wife Kathrin, from the Dortmund area come to socialize them. Cook Hulda said talented people from the Nama has pumpkin soup, Königsberger Klopse by Kudu and figs cooked. She speaks good German. "I like to learn, just like that, it was not difficult," she says and smiles.

Controversy is a young antelope

Outside play for white, brown and black children. Now they jostle. Everyone wants the Springböckchen "Susi" the nipple with the milk bottle in his mouth move. Always slow, "says the wife of the Farmers. Then she tells of the funny animal, which is also with the two stocky dogs has angefreundet. "We found" Susi "powerless in one of our fences." The small antelope without a birth mother was tall, is now mature and good things.

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Many Germans have in recent years in Namibia found a new home. They followed their fellow countrymen, particularly 100 and more years to Emperor times settled in the region, as this was and still colony German South West Africa said. Thereafter the region was under the administration of its neighbor South Africa, before Namibia became independent in 1990.

Holiday on a tourist ranch or hunting in the country is becoming increasingly popular, even the ZDF-Doku-Soap "Our farm in Africa" should have reinforced the interest. The mixture of relaxation, solitude and privation without a great adventure away from national parks and luxury camps has its special charms. Almost every cattle farms in Namibia now has tourism as the second leg was discovered. Many guests relax amidst palm trees and flowering hibiscus by the pool. Horseback riding, hikes to caves, animal stalking and desert rides are among the activities.

"Namibia is Africa ideal for beginners," says Ernst Sauber, a neighbor of the Schulze Neuhoff. "The country is stable and relatively safe. Roads, hotels and lodges are for African conditions good, varied landscapes and wildlife and attractive." The head of the 40 kilometers away Nachbarfarm "BüllsPort" lives here in the third generation. His grandfather came from Schleswig-Holstein.

Plenty of space for nature

"BüllsPort" is one of the oldest farms in Namibia and especially popular for hikers and riders. Namibia had in recent years a sharp increase in tourists. But there are still plenty of space. The country is more than twice as large as Germany, but has only two million inhabitants.

Sauber is the main initiator of a small group of farmers at the Naukluft, which promotes sustainable tourism and local trains, such as mining and natural leader. "Naukluft Experience" is the name of the initiative, in which Schulze Neuhoff family committed. On Nabasib where children go to school is a few weeks ago, a solar installation has been installed. Students of the Heinrich-Hertz-Schule in Hamburg have the money collected. Through the solar system the school can now also use the donated computers.

Over two hours drive from Ababis it to the nearest asphalt road, a total of three to Swakopmund on the Atlantic. Some farmers thundering pace with 130 to straight sections on the broad sandy slopes. Who goes slowly, it can better Oryx, Kudu, Jackal and Great Bustard observed. On the hillside are a few striped spots to see mountain zebra, as the view through binoculars shows.

Despite the rather barren landscape, the fauna is quite abundant in the central Namibia - Estosha far from the park to the north, one of the richest tier of Africa counts. Far and wide there is no other vehicle in the sand, but a solitary road sign warns: maximum speed 100!