Journal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]