Day 12


After a good night’s sleep we left our hotel and were on our way. Windhoek is a lovely looking city, but unfortunately we didn’t have time to look around. Had to get back on the road again……..

The hotel forecourt
The road out of Windhoek
The smudges on the pics are bugs on the windscreen!
This time we didn’t miss the Tropic of Capricorn and stopped for a pic.

The road was quite monotonous but the scenery was changing constantly. We were travelling straight down the length of Namibia heading for South Africa and Keetmanshoop, our overnight stop.

The road is straight forever we went for over 10k’s before rounding a corner!
This range of mountains was with us for a long time. At first we thought it was a huge mine dump it was so dry, but it was a range of mountains.
We had a hilarious happening when we reached Keetmanshoop. We stopped at a “craft market” which looked quite shady and were deciding what to do when a police van pulled up. We thought “what now” but the policeman had stopped to admire the cars. He asked us what we were looking for and Jill explained we wanted a “mall” as we needed to buy a thank you pressie for the guy who organised the trip. He said I’ll take you – follow me. He put his flashing lights on and we followed behind in single file. Know I know how it feels to be a politician!! We went straight through robots and stop streets, with the public looking on in amazement as four rather dirty Mercs followed behind the very proud policeman like obedient subjects. He dropped us off at our destination, which was right next to the hotel, bid him farewell and he drove off happy, smiling from ear to ear>
A quiver tree outside Schutzenhaus a restaurant where we had a delicious dinner. Our hotel was the only place in the area big enough to accommodate our group and clearly they couldn’t cope. The service was extremely slow and they were totally overawed by the numbers. We had quite an issue with water as well and struggled to get enough to shower. We later found out that there was one geyser to every 4 rooms and if you tried to shower when someone else was showering – you got no water!! Apart from that the rooms were clean and comfortable and the food was fresh and nicely cooked. We were pleased we were only there for 1 night.
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