Hi all,
I have not written for a week, we have been flying aaround the country!
We picked up our hire car and drive for many hours south to Keetmanshoop. We stayed in an american western theme hotel with zebra print towels and leopard print duvet! Very wierd experience. The next day we drove onto the Fish River Canyon, then onto Ludewitz for the night. We ended up driving into town through sunset, the road was tarred, through sand dunes, so the sand was blowing across the road, making it difficult to see where I was driving. The enxt morning we went to this town that used to be a mining town, but when the mines closed, the town was just left. Literally to the sand, there were buildings that you couln't walk fully into, because the sand was piled up against the front door. They call it a ghost town, and we were sure glad we waited to see it in the morning, it would have been too freaky on sunset. When we went to the entrance we had to pay an admission, we lowered the window of the car, a guy came out of a no office wearing goggles (the sand was blowing a gale!), an amusing sight.
From there we headed west to the coast and went to Walvis Bay and then stayed in Swakopmund the night. We stayed in this place called the alternate space, a B & B run buy a really friendly namibian family. The room was according to Mike - like a mushroom tunnel! The slightly disconcerting thing about the room, was that it had lots of nude photos and paintings. You may ask why this was disconcerting...well the sheer number was one thing, but upon closer inspection we realised the phots were of our hostess!
We stayed here two nights, as Mike insisted that we get up at 5am to head towards Soussvlei, and I needed a sleep in. So we pottered around town, Mike swam in the Atlantic (too cold for me!) and had lots of game to eat. We found a fab restaurant and had Lobster and Oysters for dinner! Yum!! We at this stage realised that we were not quite sticking to budget or our previous backpacker lifestlye.. but oh well!
We drove on then to Soussvlei - the dunes were amazing, and we went the opposite direction from all teh tourists and climbed our own dunes, you will have to see the photos! AMAZING!
We then drove to a little town, and stayed in a farmhouse the night. We had dinner with the owner and his extended family, and learnt allot about farming in the local area.
We were up early again (5am - Mike is a hard task master) and drove to Etosha National Park. Here we stayed for one night, and spotted elephants, giraffes, waterhogs, deer (I am soo over deer) and lots of zebra. Again another amazing experience.
We then headed back to Windhoek last night.
We fly to Cape Town this afternoon.
Looking forward to seeing Matt and Zea!
Talk Soon
Ngaira
xx
