| Next we visited the town of UIS and stayed at the White lady B & B . Uis is the closes town to Brandberg anf the brandberg mining camp . We stopped to get petrol and the locals immediately approached us with flats of crystals for sale. We got some great deals before we headed off to the brandberg mining camp . It is about 80 km from Uis but takes 2 hours to drive because the roads are so terrible. At places the sand is almost impassable . After driving for 2 hours without seeing power poles ( but lots of ostrich and gemsbok) we arrived at the turn off for the camp. It only took a minute for the miners to orderly line up the flats on the ground for us to look at . The quality was superb and the prices very low. I saw some incredible specimens ! These folks have hard life and must be very rugged . Their houses were constructed out of any type of material they can find . What was touching was that despite the challenges they face , they still had a neat and orderly courtyard of raked gravel surrounded with stones. In the center of this they had desert type plants and these were circled with quartz crystals ( they used the colorless or broken kind that didn't have any value). This showed a curious pride that I have thought about at odd times ever since I beheld it . We stayed in nearby Uis for 2 days & as word spread , soon we couldn't stop at the store because such a crowd would develop with folks wanting to sell us crystals. This at times got almost unmanageable ! The good crystals we didn't mind looking at and buying , but the trouble was that not everyone had good crystals yet expected us to buy their crystals as well. This day was overwhelming and left me at a loss for words, which as everyone knows is not often. I'll be adding a lot more here about brandberg. You can check out the video below |
| I have obtained some incredible Brandberg amethyst crystals for sale as well as other crystals from my journey's and my mines. Check them out below: |
| As we pulled out of the town of Usakos the paved road was no more. For hundreds of miles ahead there is nothing but dirt road. The travel guides call these "gravel roads" which is deceptive and leads you to think the roads are improved with gravel . This is not the case as the road is simply graded from time to time . The road bed is part dirt , at times exposed bedrock and at others, SAND. The prior page shows a video of what happens when you hit deep sand. The road at most times was quite passable all though very bumpy with "washboards" or as the chaps here call "corrugated" or "corrugations". After riding 30 miles or so ( which took an hour) , we entered our first real African village ; Tubussis. The locals soon came and offered us their crystals for sale . There was a little schorl tourmaline , some topaz, garnet, and aquamarine. Most folks were quite nice and friendly . One fellow left his flat of purchased crystals on the ground and a villager slyly grabbed them up and started reselling them ! |
| Brandberg minig camp / MEERKAT video ! YOU CAN VIEW THIS IN HIGH QUALITY AND FULL SCREEN . JUST CLICK THE BUTTONS ON THE PLAYER |
| This page is the Tubussis and Brandberg, Namibia page. It tells about my trip to this area to source amethyst crystals directly from the miners around the Erongo range & at the Brandberg mining camp. The background photo is of the Acacia tree. |
| Wait , There's more ! Don't miss PAGE THREE as the MINERAL SAFARI adventure continues... |
| Would you like to visit Brandberg,Namibia to collect your own amethyst crystals ? FIND OUT MORE |
| Video shot on location : Tubussis Namibia |
| You may want to see more pictures of BRANDBERG AMETHYST |
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| CLICK HERE to see Erongo Tubussis area. |
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