Land Rover Owners Namibia

23/09/2026

Let's get the little ones hooked early.😎🤙
👇 See book launch for
LEONARD THE LAND ROVER.

22/09/2026

KAOKOLAND TRIP – Day 7 & 8:
What Happens in Kaokoland… continues… and eventually reaches the tar road!
📜The Officially Unofficial Final Report!
And so... we reached the final chapter.

Having slept😴 save and sound at the Puros Community Campsite, and packing up in the early hours, the convoy of vehicles headed to the view 👀 point a little further from the settlement. As not all vehicles would have fitted on top⛰️ a couple remained at the foot🦶 of the hill and walked up. 🚶🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️
The views 👀were spectacular. The scenery 🏜️was breathtaking. The photographs 📸 were numerous.
We had to drag ourselves away from this sight as there were still some considerable kilometres to cover to get to the next destination.
The landscape besides the - often times badly corrugated 〽️- road was stunning yet stops were only made when one of the mystical and elusive Kaokoland STONE MAN was spotted along the road.
🗿 THE STONE MEN OF KAOKOLAND
Not ordinary stones.
Not random piles of rocks.
No... these were the mysterious and elusive Kaokoland Stone Men.

So now it's your turn 🫵
👀 Look at the photos… HOW MANY STONE MEN DID WE ENCOUNTER❓
👇 Drop your answer in the comments below.
And no worries, asking the Stone Men themselves does not count as cheating.🤝

Eventually, we rolled into the settlement of Sesfontein with a few fuel tanks approaching the desperate stage.

⛽ PLAN A: Fill up at the fuel station.
Unfortunately, plan A depended on the fuel attendant actually being there... she wasn't.😡
She had obviously decided that working hours were more of a suggestion than a contractual obligation and always buggers off after half a day of inhaling a fair dose of fuel fumes.

⛽ PLAN B
Find fuel somewhere else. We located a tyre repair shack where aparently fuel could be obtained. Excellent. Except the fuel wasn't there yet. It had to be organised and brought in… and this would take a while.

⛽ Plan B became plan C which was, there was no plan C. There was, however, the prospect of ONGONGO FALLS💦 our next stay over.
And 30 km was apparently considered close enough to “we'll worry about the fuel later“, so there was no Plan C.

💦 ONGONGO FALLS
At Ongongo Falls, everyone dealt with the heat in their own way.
The group divided into two categories.
CATEGORY ONE:
💦 Those who cooled themselves down in the refreshing natural pool 👙🩱
CATEGORY TWO:
🍺 Those who believed hydration first comes from within and reached for a cold b**r🍻
Both groups claimed their method was superior.
Nobody conducted a scientific study, nobody needed to.
The day finished off with a communal Braai (BBQ) 🌭🍗 and the trip's penalty 🎤announcement 🥳, a tradition finely ingrained into LRONS events.

⚖️ THE LRON COURT OF PENALTIES
A few alleged transgressions had been carefully documented during the trip.
🆗 some somewhat factual,
🆗 some highly questionable,
🆗 some entirely fabricated by people WITH FAR TOO MUCH TIME AT THEIR HANDS 🫴
A number of offences had been committed - or allegedly committed - or possibly invented.
The court did not concern itself with such minor 🤏 details. Evidence was optional. 🤔
Witnesses were unreliable. 👎
The accused were given very little opportunity to defend 🤺themselves.
⚖️ The sentencing?
🥃 PENALTY SHOT - Rice w**e.
Because apparently normal beverages are not sufficiently punitive.
For those with a weaker disposition for alcohol (ladies etc.?) or those with a more sophisticated criminal record, there was also 🍓 Strawberry Cream Liqueur, a penalty so suspiciously enjoyable🤤 that one wonders whether it was actually a reward.
This caused an immediate problem... in fact, that several participants seemed suspiciously keen to be found guilty and hoping to be convicted.
The justice system ⚖️ seriously requires reviewing. 👀

The next morning, rather than risk returning to Sesfontein and discovering that the fuel attendant had once again entered a mysterious state of absence, the convoy decided to drive the 110km to Palmwag.
👍The promise of a functioning ⛽fuel station helped.
👍 The promise of an ice-cold b**r at Palmwag Lodge may have helped considerably more. 🍺👍

Some of us drove, others limped.
The difference was largely determined by the contents of their fuel tanks.
After the refilling, vehicle and body alike, the journey continued along the rugged rocky landscape of the Damaraland. As the landscape changed more and more, rocky outcrops, granite boulders and grassy savannahs accompanied us towards our final destination.
Late afternoon saw us rolling into Brandberg White Lady Lodge.

We checked in. ✅
Found our campsite. 📍
Set up camp.⛺️
And then performed one of the most underrated rituals of any overlanding trip:
🚿 A PROPER SHOWER.
Thereafter:
Campfire lit ✅ Dinner consumed ✅ Stories✅ Laughter ✅ Sleep ✅

🐘 A DESERT DWELLING ELEPHANT WHO DIDN'T OFFICIALLY CHECK IN❗️
The next morning, we discovered that we had received an overnight visitor.
A desert elephant had apparently wandered through the campsite.
Its footprints 🐾were approximately 10 metres from camp.
Ten metres❗️ That's close enough to qualify as a neighbour❗️

🛣️ TAR ROAD.
After days of driving tracks that had challenged both vehicles, drivers and passengers, we were heading back towards civilisation.
A mere 100 km stood between us and smooth blacktop. 🎉
Once there, the convoy eventually split up, with everyone heading towards their respective homes.
And just like that…
The Kaokoland adventure was over.😢
Or was it❓
Because there was one final matter to settle.
WHAT HAPPENS IN KAOKOLAND STAYS IN KAOKOLAND.
At least, that's what everyone said.🙄🗣️

However…
📸 There are photographs.
🎥 There are videos.
📝 There are penalty records.
👀 There are witnesses. 👂 .. and there are people who remember. 🗯️

👉So perhaps the real question should be:
HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY STAYS IN KAOKOLAND? 😂
Until the next LRON adventure. 🚙🚐🚘🛻🚙🚕🚌

20/09/2026

Do you have one of those Classics?

19/09/2026

17/09/2026

LRON had shared 🔁 the post by LR Parts and many of you participated.

Good luck 🤞next time if you didn't win now.

14/09/2026

KAOKOLAND TRIP – DAY 5 & 6: WHAT HAPPENS IN KAOKOLAND… CONTINUES! 😎🚙🙈🙉👌
DUST, DRAMA, PUNCTURES & A LITTLE BIT OF LUXURY!
If you thought Day 4 was adventurous, Kaokoland clearly decided we hadn’t suffered enough yet! 😯
We woke up at our wild campsite on the banks of the Omuhongo River and started packing up. Then, out of absolutely nowhere, an OvaHimba lady appeared - and after watching 👀us for a while from some distance - approached us and tried to communicate, mostly by pointing 👇at various body parts gesturing they caused her pain.
Luckily, our medical department consisted of a packet of painkillers and a lot of goodwill. 💊👍
Back on the gravel road, we passed a larger village and a beautiful hot spring where locals were washing themselves and their clothes, while the livestock happily joined in for a drink. 🐐🐄
Naturally, the hot spring was far too tempting for some of us, so a few brave souls decided to test the waters. Because this SPA didn’t come with a membership fee. 🆓
Freshened up, we continued towards the wilderness tracks leading in the direction of Van Zyls Pass. The plan was to eventually find the tracks to the Khumib River and follow it towards the settlement of Puros our next night's camp.
Simple you would think!
Kaokoland had other plans.
The track became increasingly challenging...and then came the first puncture.
“Okay, no problem. Happens in Africa.”
Then came the SECOND puncture on the same vehicle.
At that point the driver was probably wondering what bad Karma had it in for him.☯️
By late afternoon, we found a suitable opening beside the track and called it home for the night.
Our two single lady drivers decided it was time to christen their brand-new camping showers and shower tents. 🚿⛺First time ever using them.

An early start on day 6 with more spectacular Kaokoland scenery and eventually…a dry riverbed!
Could this finally be the Khumib River?
Only one way to find out - so we drove into it and headed west towards Puros, our planned overnight stop.
The “dry” riverbed also decided to challenge us with soft sand, smaller boulders and thick vegetation as well as swampy sections towards the end of the day….because apparently sand alone wasn’t enough. 🌴🏜️
By now, the sun was fading and we were still navigating the riverbed. Fortunately, the surroundings started looking familiar, and we knew the settlement of Puros had to be somewhere around the next bend…
Apparently “close” in Kaokoland means:
another bend… another bend… another bend… and many more bends after that.
Just when we thought the riverbed couldn't surprise us any further, a desert elephant appeared through the thick riverine bush. 🐘❤️
By now darkness was approaching fast
And we were still driving.
As night set in, we finally rolled into Puros Community Campsite.
And then came the best surprise of the day.
The kind manager allowed us to camp in the large open area in front of the bungalows and - wait for it -
OPENED TWO BUNGALOWS FOR US TO USE THE TOILETS AND SHOWERS!🚿🚽
The bungalow courtyard BBQ areas were also taken over and the manager even dropped off a large bag of firewood.

After two days of dust, heat, punctures, riverbeds and wilderness, we suddenly felt like in a 5-star luxury resort. 🚿😂
A couple of us even surrendered completely and booked themselves into bungalows.
At that moment, Puros Community Campsite officially became:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
THE BEST HOTEL IN AFRICA.
Bring on Day 7… assuming the tyres survive! 😂🛞

# LRON

07/09/2026

KAOKOLAND TRIP – Day 3️⃣ & 4️⃣
👉What Happens in Kaokoland continues… 😎
As you know from the previous post, we had ended up at a wild camping ⛺️spot east of Epupa Falls. A restful night was had by all and the next morning we packed up and left our lovely sandy camping spot early, while the morning was still cool…ish. The hope was that the sand would still be a little firm from the cooler night temperatures, allowing us to get the vehicles off the beach without any drama.
All said and done, half the convoy set off to finally reach the planned end of the road, the destination where the Baines Hydropower Dam wall is planned to be built. The other half decided one cannot leave the rumbling of a demanding tummy unanswered and settled on the grassy upper part of the beach, ensuring a much firmer surface. Their plan? A leisurely bacon-and-eggs breakfast, followed by a relaxed drive back east to the main gravel road and onwards to Epupa Falls.
The mission was to secure a campsite for the whole group at one of the four commercial campsites/lodges and meet up with the other half of the convoy there.
And, of course, there was the small matter of a decent shower and a swimming pool....priorities, people! 😎
Meanwhile, the usually slow older Land Rover Defender 🐌suddenly remembered that it actually had an engine… with a turbo! 😂🏁
It promptly disappeared down the road at a speed that suggested someone had mentioned the luxuries of cold b**r🥫, shower 💦and a swimming pool 🏊‍♂️ waiting at Epupa Falls.
Luckily, the plan worked out beautifully, and we managed to secure a wonderful, large campsite on the banks of the river, shaded by palm trees.
By the time the rest of the convoy arrived, some of us were already doing some very serious research into the local facilities…
…and by “research”, I mean we were in the pool……yes, at the pool bar! 🍻🏊
After two days of dust, heat and sweat as well as bouncing around in 4x4s, that pool felt like five-star luxury.
Kaokoland was once again reminding us that adventure is hard work - but thankfully, there are places where you can recover properly! 😎🍺
Leaving the Epupa campsite… reluctantly! ❤️
The next morning our time at the peaceful Epupa campsite came to an end, but not before we explored🔎 the spectacular Epupa Falls. After admiring the falls, we ventured to a little-known, secluded beach along the Kunene River downstream. There, we did what any sensible adventurer would do: absolutely nothing for a while! 😂
We soaked up the scenery, enjoyed the river and stored away a few more Kaokoland memories.
The convoy then headed south towards the Omuhongo dry river bed. The plan was simple: follow the river bed, cut straight through, and eventually pop out at the Khumib River.
Easy, right ❓
Wrong 😂
For hours we crawled through the soft sand of the wide Omuhongo river, engines working hard, tyres digging in, drivers concentrating … when suddenly…
🪨 BOULDERS ❗️
Not little “let’s squeeze past it” boulders. Proper, enormous, “you’re not going anywhere today” bouldesrs.
After all that effort, the only sensible thing to do was turn the entire convoy around and retrace our tracks. Because nothing says adventure quite like driving for hours just to end up exactly where you started!
Some time later, still in ther Omuhongo river bed, we pulled off onto the embankment and set up night camp.
And then came the best part of the day.
🔥 Campfire therapy.😵‍💫
Drinks appeared. 🍻
Stories got wilder.🗣️
The laughter got louder.😂

Tomorrow ❓ Another track, another challenge, another “surely this must be the way”… 😜🏕️🔥

04/09/2026

KAOKOLAND TRIP 22 to 30 August 2026 – Day 2️⃣:
What Happens in Kaokoland…❓ 😎

Doesn’t the popular saying go, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”❓
Well… never on Land Rover Owners Namibia trips and definately not in our group ❗ 😂
Although, to be fair, “What happens in Kaokoland stays in Kaokoland” was regularly used whenever someone was caught doing something particularly silly. 🤡
And there was enough silliness to keep that saying busy ❗
👉Join us on our photo adventure ❗
After surviving our first night at a commercial campsite near Kamanjab, our convoy of 7️⃣ vehicles and 1️⃣1️⃣ adventurous souls set off towards the mighty Kunene River which marks the border with our neighbouring country, Angola.
And because simply following the planned route would obviously have been far too boring, curiosity got the better of us. We headed about 40 km west of Epupa Falls along a newly bulldozed road towards the area of the proposed Baines Hydropower Dam. Apart from a stuck vehicle in a ditch on the side of the dirt road, all went well.
We didn't quite make it that far though… on that day ❗
Instead, we discovered a gorgeous, untouched sandy beach along the Kunene river.
Naturally, the first vehicle had to investigate. With great enthusiasm. Straight onto the beach.
And…
GOT STUCK. 🙈
At around 38°C in the late afternoon, the cool, inviting river was looking VERY tempting. Unfortunately, the Kunene river has some permanent residents who weren't interested in sharing their swimming pool…
🐊 CROCODILES.
So, no swimming 🚫 just cold b**rs around the camp fire to cool off and make life worth living ... and probably a few more acts that definitely belong in the “What happens in Kaokoland…” category! 😂
While camp was being set up, we attracted another curious audience: a group of OVAHIMBA men, pastoralists living in the remote hills and desert of north-western Namibia.
They seemed just as fascinated by our strange convoy as we were by their world.
In fact, they liked us so much that they came back the next morning to watch the whole circus pack up and leave! 😂

And with that, Day 2️⃣ came to an end…
Seven vehicles. Eleven people. Two stuck vehicle. Zero swims. Plenty of stories.
And we're only getting started!
More Kaokoland adventures coming soon…

02/09/2026

JOHNNY HANEKOM - RIP

It is with great sadness that we have to say farewell to our fellow LRON member, Johnny Hanekom who lost his life in a microlight crash on one of his farms on Sunday morning.

Johnny was a staunch Land Rover enthusiast and supporter, having owned more than 20 Land Rovers over the years, in addition to his impressive collection of older vehicles, all of which he kept in absolutely meticulous condition.

He was always impeccably dressed and a true gentleman. His kindness, dignity, and genuine love for the Land Rover community will always be remembered. Johnny supported Land Rovers Owners Namibia (LRON) in his characteristic businesslike manner, yet always with genuine passion and a big heart.

Johnny will be dearly missed by all of us who had the privilege of knowing him.

Our deepest condolences and prayers go out to his beautiful family during this difficult time. 🙏

Please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers. May God give you strength and comfort during this very difficult time, and may the memories of a life well lived bring you peace in the days ahead.

May his soul rest in peace.

From the LRON family