Journal

Caro got up just after 06:00 and started sorting things out. The rest got up and 07:00 and the big ‘after rain’ sorting and packing out and in started. We managed to get most things [...]

We got up again very lazily and took what feels like three hours to eat and pack up. By the time we left it was already scorching hot. The road from Sesfontein to Puros was [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]