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Testimonial Letters From Visitors
"Hello Hermi and Marlene
We will remember you both forever. Thank you for the wonderful hospitality and oh- that wonderful breakfast!!
We enjoyed ourselves so much and you are both excellent hosts.
Martha and Mike declared Kanaan as the best of Namibia - since their goal was to get to Sossusvlei, that is quite something.
It brought us all back to our roots being without electricity and was inspirational seeing what quality of life you can have away from the ratrace.
A big thank you and the Lord Bless you
Evelyn"
"Good Evening Hermi & Marlene
We had a verry nice trip through Namibia.
We will certanly come back to this beautiful country.
Thank you verry much for the fantastic stay at your lovely farm
Coralie, Pascale and Michael Petsch"
"Hello Hermi & Marlène !!!!
How are you ?
My father and I love Namibia, it was very very nice... We like a lot your farm, it was magnificent... We would like come back an other time in Namibia...
Thank you for your hospitality we will never forget all this moments with you and we will remember you for a long long time too !!!
Us pictures are so nice !! Thank you for your advice council for the fotos !
I'm going to send you an other mail with my father's net and you will see a selection of us better pictures with music...
Best Wishes !
Frederic and Silvia
Hi you
marco sad he wrote you some weeks ago. I was in tübingen at university for the last few weeks, writing my exam thing...
Now I m home for the weekend.
I often think back at the great time we had in Namibia and at Kanaan! I ve been to many nice placec in my life, but the sundown on the hill behind your farm was one of the nicest, or the nicest place, I ve ever been. really!!!
and I like to come back...
About two weeks ago we bought a new travelguide ( Namibia and botswana) because we are thinking about comming back next summer. maybe with our dad.
so we will see...
again thank you very much, and we will stay in contact.
dennis
Hello Hermi and Marlène,
we are back in Europe and looking back to our long journey in Namibia. From your place we went further to Lüderitz, Rosh Pinar, Oranje, Fish River Canyon, Quiver Trees at Keetmanshoop and the C17-C15-C20 through the Kalahari. So we have seen quite a lot of your country.
Your place we really enjoyed and the pictures we have taken from your farmland convinced our friends here in Europe, that the landcape in Kanaän is marvelous. I have forwarded my remarks to Iwanowski and recommended Kanaän... For the future I hope that you will be in the position to have more guest at your farm Kanaän.
Love from Old Germany
Helmut und Ingrid Glock
Hermi & Marlène,
We really had a wonderful time in Namibia and one of the absolute highlights was the stay at Kanaan. We did not feel more hospitality in any other accomodation on the way. So thank you for that experience.
Unfortunately, normal life has a firm grip on us again, but looking at the pictures we made, we still brush up our memory and that puts a smile on our faces every time.
We are just about to give Iwanowski a feedback on our trip and will let them know that they should send more people to you guys to share the same good time we had.
Enjoy the summer, we are starting to have the first frosty days here.
Guido & Dagmar
©Yannick from Switzerland
Dear Hermi and Marlene,
here you get a message from the two Germans who visit you on 3 th March 2007. We had a wonderful tour with you, Hermi, and got a delightful meal after the tour
We just want to say "Hello" and that we are back in Germany. We had a great time in Namibia. We just want to say thank you to you.
We wish you a lot of rain, a lot of friendly guest and a good time.
Best regards, Ulrike and Sven
Leipzig, Germany
Hallo,liebe Marlene und lieber Hermi ,
herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland senden Euch Eure Gäste Heidi und Michael und Susi und Rainer.
Leider ist unsere Reise beendet und wir können nur noch von Namibia träumen.Wir denken sehr gern an die schönen,erlebnisreichen Tage auf Kanaan zurück und danken Euch nochmals für Eure herzliche Gastfreundschaft.Eine Empfehlung an Iwanowski's Reisen haben wir selbstverständlich weitergeleitet .
Wir wünschen Euch weiterhin viel Erfolg mit Eurer Farm und mit den touristischen Aktivitäten.Wenn Ihr alle Gäste so gut versorgt wie uns,dann kann es nur erfolgreich werden.
Liebe Grüße
Heidi aus Halle
Hallo Hermi en Marlene,
Ons het koud gekry in Windhoek, vergaan van die hitte in Swakop (Oosweer en bokant 40 grade!), en kuier nou in die Etosha.
Hier is dit net so warm, ons koel elke dag oor die midag uur af in hulle swembad.
Behalwe vandag, want ek sit bietjie en skryf. Ons het baie lekker gekuier by julle, en sal altyd onthou hoe aangenaam julle dit vir ons gemaak het. Hoop julle sal baie voorspoed en sukses beleef met julle projek, want julle is op die regte pad.
Etosha is vol wild, die kampe nie so op standaard nie, maar ons kla nie - loop baie mense hier raak wat ons so in die loop van ons toer ontmoet het.
Groete, Oom Johan en Tannie Joyce
Hallo daar,
Ons is veilig terug by die huis nadat ons julle pragtige land deur kruis en terdeë geniet het.
Hermi, baie dankie vir julle gasvryheid en oorweldigende vriendelikheid wat ons ervaar het. Dit wat julle ons gebied het, ongevraagd, het diep in ons harte gaan lê. Vir die Lennon kas wat uitgepak is, die helfde van julle sout voorraad wat ek opgedrink het en die toppunt, die rit deur julle pragtige plaas,- dit is onverbeterlik-, sê ons weereens baie baie dankie.
Ons bede vir julle is dat hierdie projek van julle groot vrugte sal afwerp, en wie weet, sien ons julle dalk een jaar by KKNK. Dit wil sê as jy herkenbaar is.
Groete vanuit 'n koue Noordwes.
Johann, Alta, Frik en Hannetjie
Hello Hermi and Marlene,
I hope you are both very well, and that you had a quiet and relaxing weekend!!
Gay and I arrived back into Windhoek safely last Friday and Gay flew out to the UK on Saturday. I am now just catching up in the office, and moving house - so it is pretty hectic at the moment!
But more importantly, thanks for a wonderful stay and your excellent hospitality.
I hope to see you both again soon. Keep well and all the best.
Saskia
Dear Marlene, dear Hermi,
our holidays are over and now we are back in germany for one week. We had a lovely trip trough Namibia and we loved the country, the places we saw and the people. We specially remember your place because it was the first farm in namibia we visited and we enjoyed our stay with you so much! Thank you for this great experience and your hospitality. Especially we remember our trip with Marlene around your wonderful farm! In the attachment youŽll find some pictures we took on this trip. Marlene really gave us some nice tipps for taking great pictures!
Thank you again so much for everything and surely, if we come back again to namibia we will stay with you again. And of course we will advise your place to our friends who plan a trip to Namibia!
Best wishes
Valeria & Alexander from Düsseldorf
Een gast uit nederland kwam op kanaan een ervaring om van het pad af naar jullie plaats te rijden,die gast kreeg waar een gast recht op had vriendelijkheid bij ontvangst,het onbeschrijfelijke eten wat door marlene is bereid zonder enige moeite kon zij dit bereiden de eenvoud wat het zo ontzettend lekker maakte,de gesprekken aan tafel die over de dag gingen jullie uitstraling van rust en vriendelijkheid.
De morgen na een koude nacht de zon die opkwam het juiste plekje te vinden voor het beste resultaat van de juiste foto blij was ik dat hermi excact weet waar de juiste plaats is en wat hij kon laten zien,het landschap zonder enige hekken of gaas het landschap zoals het vroeger was.Ik heb byzondere foto s mogen nemen en kan terugzien op een tijd waarin jonge mensen nog iets voor mekaar gekregen hebben een unieke plek op een unieke lokatie .
Ik wens jullie veel succes toe en beveel iedereen aan om jullie te bezoeken.
Groeten vanuit nederland
Hans Boer
Dear Marlene,
dear Hermi,
we are back in Hamburg and would like again to thank you fort he amazing days with you.
We had a wonderful time in your country, have seen all kind and immense numbers of games, fantastic landscapes but the most impressive days were with you on kanaan.
We will never forget the stay at your place and especially you being so warm-hearted.
We hope you are doing fine and wish you all the best and hope to be one day again with you in Namibia.
Thanks also for the mail to the kids with the photos.
very best personal regards from
Ulla, Ursel, Franz und Hinrich
Liebe Grüße aus Hamburg senden Euch Franz und Ursel Berger.
Nun sind wir schon wieder über eine Woche zu Hause und wir denken jeden Tag gerne an das wundervolle Land Namibia. Wir haben auf unserer Rundreise sehr viele verschiedene Landschaften gesehen und jede für sich ist wunderschön. Gerne erzählen wir von unserem Aufenthalt bei Euch. Es war super toll bei Euch und mit Euch.
Unsere Kinder haben sich sehr über Deine Mail gefreut.
Wir wünschen Euch ganz viel Erfolg weiterhin und immer nette Gäste.
Herzlichst Franz und Ursel
Hello Hermi, Hello Marlene,
we are back in our home town and at work. Look at the picture, this is Schwaebisch Hall, where we live.
It is a little bit colder than in Namibia, we have seen early snow this year.
But we remember Namibia very well, we had a very nice stay there.
Kanaan farm was one of the best places we have been. We would like to come again in only a few years to see you again.
With many greetings from cold South Germany
Darko Deutschmann and Jutta Fromm


Liebe Marlene. lieber Hermi,
wir sind wohlbehalten wieder zurück in Deutschland.Unser Aufenthalt bei Euch verlockt uns zum Wiederkommen.
Besonders das gemeinschaftliche Frühstück und Abensessen mit dem TISCHGEBET hat uns sehr beeindruckt.
Wir fuhren zu Euch indie "Wüste", um zu lernen,was wir in Zukunft besser machen können. Dies wird nicht die letzte E-Mail sein. Nochmals vielen Dank an Marlene für die liebevolle Zubereitung
der leckeren Speisen!
Mit weihnachtlichen Grüßen
Bärbel u. Bernd Münstermann

Hello !
Well, to do that translation (French translation f this website) gave me so many pictures in my mind...a real pleasure, actually. Thank you for your trust !
Don't hesitate to ask me for more translation, or something that I can do or send to you.
May be you could send me a powerpoint presentation of Kanaan. I could ask my students to work on it. It would be a very good challenge for them who are learning powerpoint.
I am thinking several times to you, to your hospitality, to your meals and to those unique walks that you allow me to discover around your farm. A part of Kanaan is still living in me, a timeless feeling that make's me stonger and happier everytime I am thinking about it.
Best wishes, Yannick - Switserland
Hello Hermi an Marlene,
we, rudi and marion ( i hope you remember) are back in good old cold germany.
We want to thank you for the very impressive stay at kanaan. Kanaan was at the beginnging of our namibia-trip, but it was the most impressive location during the trip !
We had a very good time in your country, i want to send you some pictures i made in kanaan an somwhere else !
We had some trouble at the aba huab river , near twyvelfontain. I try to drive a 4x4 like you did in the morning drive, but this was not good. I drove into water, but it was too deep.
In the middle of the aba huab there was a hole and the car went down ( you know our new X-Trail, you testet it ). But we had great luck. Vincent from the Mowani lodge comes with his unimog pulled us out of the river. So we had a wunderful night in mowani camp :))).
We got a new car from hertz and the damage is insured ! So everything work fine , at least !
So i want to wish you the very best. Enjoy your minimalism as long as it works !
Greetings from munich.
Hallo Hermi und Marlene,
since yesterday late evening we are at home again! But what means home?I felt much more familiarin Namibia then in Germany. Nevertheless it was a beautiful event to meet you two.
But its very depressing to come back to Germany, zero degree an snowfall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We wished to be back in Africa! But okay for the next few years I have to live with that, if nobody gives me a job in Namibia.
All the best for you two and thank you very much für den sehr familiären Empfang (For this I don`t havethe réal words in English).
Gerhard and Gabi
Dear Hermi and Marleene,
yesterday Gerd told me he mailed with you. Just let me say thank you as well for the warm welcome, the outstanding landscape, the laughter and discussion we shared.
It was simply wonderful to stay with you not only for extraordinary accomodation, the talk we had but also for the delicious food and everything!
Many thanks again to Marleene for her work.Hope that it turns out to be not only a healthy and successful but also a happy year!
According to your description we found the "cactus shop" in Mariental and we had a nice talk and Gerd bought several plants as well.
Wishing you all the best and hoping to hear from you
Gabi
and regards from Gerd!
Dear Marlene, dear Hermi,
thank you for your mail. We are very plesased about that you enjoyed our staying in your house. We also are happy about our staying with you both. We often remember our trip in the evening with you Hermi as well as our trip in the morning to the dunes. You both have a wonderful place for your own. Nobody can imagine that somebody owns such a peaceful, big, exciting and so nice place, if he or she wasn´t with you. We also remember the very good Dinner and the nicely prepared breakfast and last but not least your hospitality, we felt to be with friends.
Once if it´s possible to return to Namibia we promise to visit you again but then not only for one day.
Our trip through Namibia was great although we have had some difficulties crossing some rivers. For all 4 of us it was a wonderful, exciting trip. We have seen a lot different places with different sceneries, animals, plants and objects of interest. All was great. Part of this all was the excellent working out from Mrs. Pynapple.
In South Africa Klaus and me travelled along the "garden route", we visited some National Parcs, several towns, wineries and farms. South Africa is also very interesting, but Klaus and me we like more to be in Namibia, because some parts of South Africa are like Europe.
We often speak about our holidays, but the only thing we can do in the moment is dreaming.
We would be glad to get a message from you and we hope that all is well.
Kindest regards
Sieglinde and Klaus
Many greetings also from Susanne and Andre.
Dear Hermi,
I sent you an email right after our stay with you in namibia. But I guess this email did not reach you. The reason might be that I had attached some pictures.
I wanted to thank you both for the wonderful time we spent with you! It was great!
Many greeting from Germany, where hopefully spring will arrive soon.
Kind regards and best wishes.
Andre
Hi Hermi,
We just arrived in Paris and we wanted to thank you and Marlene for your hospitality. It was a great pleasure to meet you !
We hope to see you either in Paris or in Namibia
Kindest regards
Anne & Raphael
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