Trip Report

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Day 21: Mile 72 to Uis via Messum Crater

2017-03-25T21:56:58+02:00 March 4th, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 20: Swakopmund to Mile 72

2017-03-25T21:56:58+02:00 March 3rd, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 19: Spitzkoppe to Swakopmund

2017-03-25T21:56:58+02:00 March 2nd, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 18: Windhoek to Spitzkoppe

2017-03-25T21:56:58+02:00 March 1st, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 13 – 17: Windhoek

2017-03-25T21:56:58+02:00 February 28th, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 12: Sesriem to Windhoek

2017-03-25T21:56:58+02:00 February 23rd, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 11: Duwisib to Sossusvlei

2017-03-25T22:42:58+02:00 February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 10: Lüderitz to Duwisib

2017-03-25T22:39:34+02:00 February 21st, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

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 [...]

Day 9: Kolmanskop

2017-03-25T21:56:59+02:00 February 20th, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

We got up before 08:00 and ate Nutrific for breakfast. We got to Kolmanskop (R85 p.p) before 09:00, just in time for the first tour. We spent almost almost three hours there taking thousands of pictures. Afterwards we drove to Dias Point and Grossebucht, not much to see, but the landscape was interesting. We arrived [...]

Day 8: Canyons to Lüderitz

2017-03-25T22:36:51+02:00 February 19th, 2017|Categories: Africa, Namibia, Trip Report|

For Breakfast we ate the lasts rusks and soft rolls with peanut butter and syrup. We drove past the Cañon Roadhouse again and then turned left towards Seeheim. We stopped about halfway at Mount Canyon, a new place that wasn’t there last time Hugo drove on this road. Mount Canyon (the name is apparently not [...]