Just landed in Dubai for a 3.5h layover. Our flight was complete with the screaming baby that started on queue with the lights dimming after dinner. I managed 2hrs of broken sleep. Airport is pretty much a shopping mall that happens to have a landing strip. It’s go big or go home in the duty.

Baggage wrapped, check-in done, SARS forms filled in, security check passed and passport stamped. Now we wait for the boarding call. Holiday is finally here! Our plane is getting prepped.

We’re getting ready for our second overseas trip. Friends of ours announced they they were getting married in Germany so we decided to turn the event into a bit of a holiday as well. We will be visiting Germany, Czech Republic and United Kingdom. Quite a few friends we haven’t seen in years are living.

After lunch Andre and I went for a complementary paddle up the river in some canoes they have available for campers. It was rather pleasant with a number of birds to be seen on the water. We paddled upstream and floated back down 🙂 When we got back to camp I noticed a familiar looking.

After goodbye to Thomas and the Italians we headed off to find the buchery at the Canon road lodge. It was quite a nice place and they had some springbok and gemsbok steaks which we bought (almost 2kgs of meat for N$120). We then carried on with the scenice route past ai-ais on the way.

It was quite a windy night on Sunday which resulted in a cool morning so we slept in till just before 7 🙂 After saying googbye to Giel we went into town again to see if we could draw some money. Everything was offline when we arrived on Sunday (no cellphone signal, no ATM or.

It was up before dawn for some sunrise photos in the Kalahari. After some tea and coffee at the bar we hit the road to Keetmanshoop. Johan the manager was kind enough to give us two bags of ice before we left so the fridge was doing well. When we arrived in Keetmanshoop we stopped.

We had a bit of a sleep-in on Saturday and after breakfast, some repacking of the bakkie and some goodbyes we were on the road to Anib Lodge in the Kalahari. Just before the Lodge we popped in at the Hardap dam to check the view and enjoy a cold beer. The Anib lodge was.

While making a fire to braai some meat at The Cardboard Box we met some UK girls who had been in Namibia for 2 days. Michelle is a vegetarian so we debated about what she would be able to eat that was not meat in Namibia. Andre then suggested that he cook her a sweet.