Regrettably we have reached the last day. A wonderful, amazing, exciting, adventure is drawing to a close. We leave Grunau this morning and head for the SA border. In a way it’s a relief to be going home after 14 fun-filled days. I haven’t worked out how many kilometres we’ve done, but it’s over 5 […]
Today promises to be a great adventure. We leave Keetmanshoop behind having managed a trickle shower and head for Grunau via the Fish River Canyon. Another place I’ve always waned to visit, but I don’t really know why. Same reasons as Etosha I presume. The trip to the canyon was proving to be exciting. We […]
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 road was quite monotonous but the scenery was changing constantly. We were travelling straight down the length […]
Swakopmund to Windhoek today – 380k’s. We started the day with a great breakfast, followed by Oohs & Ah’s as the pelicans arrived to scavenge on the rocks, exposed by the low tide We left for Windhoek and planned a stop for petrol. By this time the CE had sprung a slow puncture so we […]
Today would turn out to be a highlight of our tour. We were to spend the day in Swakopmund and go on a trip into the desert. We had no idea what to expect. We woke early for breakfast at 7 – service is slow – as we had to meet the tour operator outside […]
Well we continued on our way to Swakopmund with things getting more and more deserty. ( I think I may have said that before!) We finally reached our hotel, again, tired hot and thirsty! A lovely hotel with wonderful beds, spacious room and bathroom with a shower that had hot water. The view from our […]
Day 8 was supposed to be a drive to Twyfelfontein, but because the SL & SLC had taken a bit of a pounding on the rutted dirt roads we decided not to follow the rest to Twyfelfontein, but instead to head directly for Swakopmund, where the rest of the cars would join us a day […]
Still in Etosha and eager to move on to the next overnight stop, Okaukuejo, about 120k’s away. Well, the road was something else! Very rutted and the day was hot. Thank goodness for aircon and power steering. We tried going slowly and we tried going faster, but we couldn’t find a comfortable speed to iron […]
Today we leave Tsumeb and head for the Etosha National Park. I have always wanted to go to Etosha, don’t know why, but I suspect it is because of the articles I have read about it as well as pictures I have seen. Also, it’s far away and seems like an adventure. Etosha is only […]
Internet Connection was very poor on these days so I have decided to post a whole lot of pictures and say something about them by way of a quick catch up. Then I’ll be back on track.
Clearly our trip through Botswana is just a means of getting to Namibia, evidenced by the 2 nights we spend in Botswana compared to the twelve in Namibia. That should have been obvious from the start, but never having traveled to Botswana before, I expected a bit more. Today’s leg is the longest one we’ll […]
Day one kicked off at the Olivedale Corner Shopping Centre where we met some of the folk who were coming along on the ride, the rest having left directly from their various homes. A few cars set off and I decided to go after them. By the time we reached the main road they were […]
So, we’re off! We left a drizzly misty Hillcrest at 9.30am heading to Jo’burg for the start of our trip tomorrow. On the way we stopped off in Hilton to wish Lea a happy birthday and to say hi to the girls. After something warm to drink we set off up the N3. The trip […]