desert Archives - Duff's Suitcase /desert/ Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:43:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Salt, sky and sand on a 4×4 trip through Bolivia /salt-sky-and-sand-on-a-4x4-trip-through-bolivia/ /salt-sky-and-sand-on-a-4x4-trip-through-bolivia/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:23:28 +0000 /?p=3762 My introduction to Bolivia couldn’t have been more dramatic: a border crossing from Chile at over 4000 metres above sea level in the freezing early morning with the giant Licancabur Volcano looming in the background, followed by three days of offroading in a Land Cruiser through some of the most beautiful and unusual landscapes I’ve […]

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]]> /salt-sky-and-sand-on-a-4x4-trip-through-bolivia/feed/ 1 Life on the edge in the Atacama Desert /life-on-the-edge-in-the-atacama-desert/ /life-on-the-edge-in-the-atacama-desert/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:50:23 +0000 /?p=3738 “This is where all life came from”. The Chilean version of David Attenborough, our guide Gonzalez Cruz, peered into a hole the size of a truck tyre, out of which spewed forth boiling sulfuric steam. I assumed he wasn’t referring to the eggs some other guides were boiling in the ferociously bubbling water a few […]

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]]> /life-on-the-edge-in-the-atacama-desert/feed/ 2 AfrikaBurn 2014: The Trickster /afrikaburn-2014-trickster/ /afrikaburn-2014-trickster/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 11:12:18 +0000 /?p=3196 This year was my third AfrikaBurn and as always, I feel like it was a psychedelic dream that will take me weeks to process. I had too many crazy, beautiful experiences and encounters to put into words in just one blog (I feel like I could write a book about my five days in the […]

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]]> /afrikaburn-2014-trickster/feed/ 1 AfrikaBurn 2014 in photos /afrikaburn-2014-photos/ /afrikaburn-2014-photos/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 10:28:38 +0000 /?p=3217 The dust is settling in the Tankwa Karoo as another AfrikaBurn has drawn to close. For a week, 9000 people turned a farm in the middle of nowhere in the Northern Cape into a temporary town – a surreal world of art, music, dress up and performances. When you’re there you have to keep reminding […]

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]]> /afrikaburn-2014-photos/feed/ 3 Why Orange River rafting was my best holiday ever /why-orange-river-rafting-was-my-best-holiday-ever/ /why-orange-river-rafting-was-my-best-holiday-ever/#comments Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:21:26 +0000 http://www.duffssuitcase.com/?p=920 I’ve been wanting to go rafting on the Orange River for years but somehow had never got round to it. At the end of last year I got a big group of friends together and we drove up to Namibia from Cape Town the day after Christmas and then ended up having the best holiday […]

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]]> /why-orange-river-rafting-was-my-best-holiday-ever/feed/ 6 AfrikaBurn 2013 /afrikaburn-2013/ /afrikaburn-2013/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 16:02:47 +0000 http://www.duffssuitcase.com/?p=317 The sun was slowly setting over the vast Karoo horizon, turning the sky from apricot-orange to fuschia-purple as I danced with thousands of costumed people to music streaming from a purple bus and a mobile pirate ship. A massive gyrating skeleton towered over us while our feet kicked up clouds of dust from the cracked […]

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