NAMIBIA: 7 Days Of Hunting In The Omaheke Region With Hendrik & Trudy Safaris

[Muskox]

I am not a good speaker of German, very poor. Like a 3 year old. Last time I was around the Afrikaners I felt like their language was easier for me to learn than German. I work in English and live in Germany so I have that as one excuse. I know about several hundred German words, I just can't make the language work.

 

[DieJager]

I am not a good speaker of German, very poor. Like a 3 year old. Last time I was around the Afrikaners I felt like their language was easier for me to learn than German. I work in English and live in Germany so I have that as one excuse. I know about several hundred German words, I just can't make the language work.

I can feel you regarding learning a new language. I can make my self understandable in German but I'm not good at it. Currently trying to improve that.I've given up to try to improve my French etc. Those romance languages are really difficult for me.

Afrikaans is probably, certainly if you are speaking Dutch, the easiest language to learn. Keep trying brother!

 

[VertigoBE]

Great report and a great hunt overall!

thanks for sharing this with us

Afrikaans is understandable, as long as the Afrikaners don’t start mumbling in the heavy dialect, then I get lost

 

[DieJager]

as long as the Afrikaners don’t start mumbling in the heavy dialect, then I get lost

So true. Also when they are going really fast then I'm lost.

 

[gillettehunter]

I really enjoyed your report. Sounds like a great hunt with good people. Duiker can be difficult to hunt. Speedy little buggers. Congrats
Bruce

 

[DieJager]

I really enjoyed your report. Sounds like a great hunt with good people. Duiker can be difficult to hunt. Speedy little buggers. Congrats
Bruce

Thank you sir. Glad you've enjoyed it. Those duikers are acutely aware of their surroundings. It doesn't take much for them to make a run for it.

 

[Muskox]

I can feel you regarding learning a new language. I can make my self understandable in German but I'm not good at it. Currently trying to improve that.I've given up to try to improve my French etc. Those romance languages are really difficult for me.

Afrikaans is probably, certainly if you are speaking Dutch, the easiest language to learn. Keep trying brother!

I am married to a Spanish language speaker, and grew up on the southern border of the US and lived in Spain and Italy for a couple years each. I wish I was better at Spanish, Italian is like Spanish except you pronounce every letter.

German pronunciation here in Rheinland Pfalz is hard because they don't always annunciate their words. Bavaria is better.

I met an absolute stunning Dutch woman in Iceland last month. Would have married her on the spot. She did't have much of an accent at all in English. She must have watched a lot of American and British TV.

 

[Frederik]

Thanks for sharing your hunt well written.

 

[Troubleshooter]

Weidmannsheil ! You stuck with it despite the weather and harvested some fine animals. Thanks for sharing your story with us.

 

[DieJager]

Thanks for sharing your hunt well written.

Thanks Frederik. Glad you enjoyed.

 

[DieJager]

Weidmannsheil ! You stuck with it despite the weather and harvested some fine animals. Thanks for sharing your story with us.

Thanks @Troubleshooter . I was at the time afraid the weather blew my chances of getting a duiker. It is somewhat strange being on a hunt when everybody around you feels blessed it rains. I felt the same especially for what it meant for the people. Those rain are lifeline for the people. I am just having a good time. But still you want to hunt hard and the rain complicates the matter.

Luckily further south the rains had not yet arrived. Later that day it also rained there but that was shortly after getting my duiker. Everybody happy!

Thanks for following my adventure.

 

[PARA45]

Wonderful and hard hunts can't ask for better. BTW, what celebratory cigars did you end up smoking?

I'm getting ready for my Eastern Cape hunt, and I'm already selecting the cigars I will take. I have several Padron 1964 Aniversarios, and some Padron 1926 Series cigars to celebrate the hunts. On my 2022 Safari, which was 22 days in country, I think I took around 40 cigars and came home with maybe a handful.

 

[DieJager]

Wonderful and hard hunts can't ask for better. BTW, what celebratory cigars did you end up smoking?

I'm getting ready for my Eastern Cape hunt, and I'm already selecting the cigars I will take. I have several Padron 1964 Aniversarios, and some Padron 1926 Series cigars to celebrate the hunts. On my 2022 Safari, which was 22 days in country, I think I took around 40 cigars and came home with maybe a handful.

Well I smoke mainly in the spring time and summer. When the weather allows me to smoke outside. When it is cold maybe one a month.

In average during the good weather a couple a week. So on safari a few, I think I brought 3 with me for the week.

I really have to think hard which cigars I brought with me. Definitely a Cuban Montecristo, that one I wrote down in my journal. Forget which vitola it was, I think it was a robusto.

During my visit to the bar with one of the PH's I smoked a Psyko Seven Maduro. Love those.

The other one I am not quite sure. Maybe the Joya de Nicaragua Antaño Dark Corojo. That is also one of my go to cigars. So that would be a safe bet.

Also picked up some Padrons lately at your advice. Definitely a good smoke but not so good for my wallet

 

[PARA45]

Those Joya de Nicaragua are great cigars. BTW, a little bit of history here; before the cigar boom, and when Somaza was the dictator of Nicaragua, the Joya de Nicaragua were his favorite cigars.

Yes, those Padron are not good on anyone's wallet, but man they are some fine and tasty cigars.