We got up at 07:30, the earliest yet. Thanks to the millions of irritating flies we also packed up and was on the road by 08:30. We turned towards Twyfelfontein and stopped at the living Damara Musuem. Caro and the Brudis paid the R80 entrance fee and was treated to traditional Damara dances, games and [...]
We got up lazily and was slow to pack. Hugo tried to check why the battery monitor is giving low readings and lost a fuse in the process (the only one of its kind that we had). Mario lost a shoe somewhere at Mile 72, but there were no open shops in Uis and the [...]
We had a rather uneventful night (thankfully) and woke up with a misty beach morning. We had some signature dry Namibian bread (just normal brown bread, but sofar it has always been dried out even in Windhoek shops) for breakfast, packed up and paid for the camping at the dodgy receptionist who looked like he [...]
We got up just after 08:30 with the noise from other backpackers. The camping fee includes breakfast: Self-help counter with toast, jam, cheese, yogurt, muesli, corn flakes and hot drinks. We packed up and Hugo took the LED bar off. We did some reshuffling again as we needed space for the extra water (and the [...]
Our perfect campsite turned into a nightmare as the monkeys barely slept. It felt like the whole of Namibia’s wind blew right onto our roof top tent. The Brudis who slept on the ground behind a rock slept like babies. We got up quite tired, but managed to pack up and leave by 09:00. We [...]
The plan was to meet the Brudis before 09:00 and then take Mario to the travel clinic for a yellow fever vaccination and then shop while he is there. We woke at 06:30 and immediately started packing, but despite that we had to let the Brudis know that we are not going to make it before [...]
In Windhoek we basically ate, slept and worked a lot. We had dinner with Hugo’s grandmother for three nights and enjoyed tea with her in the mornings. On Friday evening Hugo’s aunt (Heloise) and cousins also joined us for dinner at his grandmother. Sunday afternoon we went to visit Hugo’s other cousin’s (Maretha) plot outside [...]
We accidentally told the Brudis that last night that we don’t have to rush this morning. The result: We only got away at 10:30. For breakfast Mario made the pancakes from yesterday’s mix. Our first stop was just outside the gate at Oasis where we had to inflate the tyres again and fill up the [...]
Our alarm went off at 07:00, but we snoozed for a while longer. For breakfast we had newly bought ProNutro. Sam softened the old bread by eating wet ProNutro on his bread with syrup. We packed up and left for Sesriem, where we arrived at 12:00. We bought lunch at the Oasis shop, before entering [...]
We packed up slowly and only left the backpackers at 10:00. We filled up in Lüderitz and then drove to Aus and stopped at the General Dealer again. We deflated the tyres, bought airtime and tried to draw cash, but the ATM didn’t work. The Church in Aus We took the C13 to [...]
