After an early start and a glorious sunrise in Spitzkoppe on Friday it was off to Windhoek. As we were packing up one of the locals came by in a donkey cart. Andre asked him if he could take it for a spin, he said sure. I asked if his insurance was paid up. After.

We packed up early this morning and headed off to the see the Welwischias. Part of the drive there takes you through the moon landscape which is probably where the Americans filmed their first landing by Neil Armstrong :p The permit we aquired highlighted points of interest which were mostly plant life and lookout points..

This morning we went to Dune 7 for a bit of sandboarding. We met Wayne from Dune 7 Sandboarding (this is stand up sandboarding using a snowboard). While we were waiting two girls from Bloemfontein arrived and it turned out they were part of our group. Wayne took us through the basics and sorted us.

Yesterday we walked around Swakopmund and visited a few of the sites. A quick visit to the information point set us off to get the permit required for the Welwitschia drive which we decided to do on Thursday morning on the way to our next stop, which at the moment is looking like Spitzkoppe on.

We got up reasonbly early this morning to find (thankfully) a somewhat overcast sky. Perfect weather for a quick stroll through the wild fig tree forest nearby our campsite. We initially thought about doing a day hike at Naukloof, but because it is also run by NWR and because Johan (the owner of the Tsauchab.

This morning (Sunday) we were up at 4:30 to be ready to go to Sossusvlei at 5. It was a bit of a rush and the Swiss ended up waiting for us for a few minutes. Only later on the way back did I recall the story our Contiki tourguide told us about the Swiss.

As we were saying goodbye to the Swiss I spotted a tent peg we had left behind. I picked it up turned around took a step and bam a flash of light as I smacked my head into the pointy end of the tree (which was out of my field of vision due to the.

We spotted some wildlife on the way to sesriem. There was Gemsbok, Springbok, Zebra and even some Ostriches. The mountains are amazing, they all have interesting shapes and formations. I took a number of pictures along the way. When we arrived at the Sesriem campsite we met a couple from Switzerland. They we debating about.

Yesterday we arrived in a very windy Luderitz. The backpackers lodge was full. So we called a few other places and eventually settled on Kratzplatz B+B which turned out to be an excellent choice. We took a walk up to the German Lutheran Church and climbed the hill behind it to discover a 360 degree.

After getting through two sets of customs we hit a bit of a detour. Its seems the D212 turnoff we were looking for masquerades as the C13. With that mystery solved we got our first taste of Namibian gravel road. It followed the Orange river all the way to Rosh Pinah and while there were.