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Home with land for sale in Swakopmund, Namibia
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Due to personal circumstances, our nice house including the surrounding grounds and vegetable farm are for sale.
The house, build in 2001, is located 20 'car minutes' East of the seaside resort Swakopmund, on the southern bank of the (dry) Swakopriver.
A few times per year a bit of water flows through the riverbed but even then, one can easily cross it by car.
Rarely, the last time was in May 2000,
the dry riverbed turns into a real river. But even then the water will neither reach the house nor the fields.
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Right behind the house one can step into the Namib-Naukluft game park
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Our land borders on the Namib-Naukluft park, this is one of the largest game parks in Africa.
For your reassurance: there are never dangerous predators near our place. On the other hand, almost daily, we see ostriches and gazelles.
Only once there was a lost Kudu buck in our fields and maybe one time a year we can spot a troop of baboons.
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Indiginous succulents and palm trees grow along the drive. There is plenty of groundwater to grow much more plants.
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There are never dangerous predators near our place.
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The terrace and an entry to the living room through sliding doors.
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The nearby seaside resort Swakopmund provides about the same facilities as a small European city (a modern hospital, post office,
police station, super-markets, hotels, restaurants, golf course etc.).
The climate feels Mediterranean although here's almost no rainfall (15 mm per year). Near the seaside, inside Swakopmund, it's
often much cooler, during the winter there's often fog in Swakopmund while here at our farm it's nice and warm.
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At the back of the house.
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The house has:
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a spacious living room, around 48 m² (500 sq foot)
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a study, around 12 m² (125 sqf)
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5 bedrooms, vary from 16 to 20 m² (167 - 208 sqf)
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3 bathrooms + toilets
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kitchen
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scullery
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a bit further down, a small house for a farm worker
Availlable facilities:
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connected to electricity grid (220 Volt and 3 phase, max. 40 Amp per phase)
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connected to municipal water supply system
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connected to telephone network, cell phone reception is ok
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septic-tanks sewage system
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municipal refuse collection once a week
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fenced yard of around 2500 m² (3000 sq yards)
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satellite dish + decoder for TV (receives BBC, CNN, SKY, TV5 and many, many others)
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wireless, reasonably fast Internet connection
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150 ltr. (33 eng. gallon) water heater
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chimney for wood-burning stove/open fire place for those few cooler days per year
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The total area of the plot is a bit more then 22 hectares (55 acres) and can be sub-divided as follows:
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around 18 hectares (45 acres) is 'wild' land, not reclaimed, there are some bushes and trees, not fenced
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around 0.25 hectare (0.62 acre), yard around the house, is fenced
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around 4 hectares (± 10 acres) are reclaimed. Here are the fields and greenhouses. It is fenced and has irrigation systems
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Only a small part of the land is used for agriculture.
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Nursing the tomato plants.
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4 hectares (± 10 acres) fenced fields
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2 greenhouses (shade cloth) total area around 4000 m² (± 5000 sq yards)
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2 bore holes, each with a capacity of around 12 m³ (± 2640 eng. gallons) groundwater per hour
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only 1 bore hole is in use. It is provided with a powerful, stainless steel submersible pump (12 m³ per hour)
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plastic storage tanks for irrigation of greenhouses with a total content of 21 m³ (± 4620 eng. gallons)
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3 pumps for further support of irrigation
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concrete water resevoir/swimming pool of 5m x 10m x 2 m (5.45 yrd x 10.90 yrd x 2.18 yrd)
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all fields are connected to irrigation system (drip lines)
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all greenhouses are supplied with own irrigation system
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cold room l=4.15m w=1.15m h=2.25m (13.6 ftx3.8 ftx7.4 ft)
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One of the bore holes.
From here, the groundwater is pumped
to the drip lines of the fields
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The asparagus fields get water through drip-lines which are connected with the submersible pump in the bore hole.
The groundwater is a bit brackish, that's why this water is only used for the irrigation of the fields where crops are growing which
can live on brackish water.
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The crops in the fields are:
permanently around 1,5 hectare (± 3.7 acres ) asparagus (per section at least 2 harvests per year)
on remaining 2,5 hectares (± 6.2 acres ) varying broccoli, (cocktail) tomatoes, beet root, spinach, kohl rabi, leeks and sunflowers
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From the main pipe line each section of the fields is provided with a branching pipe line. The drip-lines are connected
onto these branches.
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Tomato plants.
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We've got permission to use a maximum of 50 m³
(11000 eng. gallons) per day from the municipal
water supply system (this is fresh drinking water,
not brackish) for the irrigation of our greenhouses
(we never use that much).
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Cocktail tomatoes in a greenhouse made of shade cloth.
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