We left Tsumeb on December 14th, 2020. After sixty kilometers we reached Grootfontein, which looks just as green and fertile as Tsumeb. A few kilometers outside is the Tigerquelle, a guest farm on which Mäuser, as is his nickname, grows vegetables.

We asked our host why the lodge is called Tigerquelle as there are no tigers in Africa. And that’s what we heard: «The whole thing goes back to a translation error from the colonial era over a hundred years ago. The Boers who settled in the area at that time called the area Tierfontein. Tier means leopard in Afrikaans. The German Schutztruppe, which took over the farm area at that time, turned leopard into tiger. That’s how we came up with the name Tigerquelle.»

We spent two days with Mäuser, ate excellent – he is not only trained as an aircraft mechanic but also as a cook – and made friends with Nero, a ridgeback who stayed with us for two days and guarded us at night.

PS. Our host asked us if we could take some boxes of vegetables with us to the Riverdance Lodge near Divundu. That was our next goal. So, it came about that we made a vegetable transport to the Caprivi Strip.