Sesriem Rest Camp Namib-Naukluft Park

The longest driving day yet. We woke up to traffic noise early in the morning. In a country that is so vast, why did we choose to camp beside its busiest highway? To try and make up lost time and distance from yesterday's 'scenic route', we picked the most direct route to get up to Sessriem Campsite at Sossusvlei. I obviously got up on the right side of the tent because we didn't get lost once. Little lanky towns dot Namibia's arid land. A town on Namibia's map is actually a couple of wooden ...

Namibia is a bit like Australia - everywhere is a long way, away and there is not too much to see on the journey! After a few more dramas and delays, we finally set off for Sesriem (the gateway to the biggest sand dunes in the world) about midday, in our little Avis hire car, with hired sleeping bags and pillows. On the way we stopped at a strange town called Rehoboth for lunch where everything was barred and at the service station it was a bit like a bank tellers cage where the money is put ...

Visited Fish River Canyon on the way North which was impressively large. Stopped at Sesriem Campsite near the Namib Desert and had Kudu steaks done on the fire for dinner.

In the morning we up early to go see Dune 45. It was pretty hard going to make it to the top as you slid down almost as far you went up when you took a step but worth the effort in the end. Bruno motored to the top while the rest gave up pretty early on.

After Dune 45 we went to Sossusvlei which is probably th...

Another day spent cruising through Namibia...it sounds like we do a lot of it, but later on in the tour we have almost no driving so it's worth getting it over with during the first parts of the tour and then you can truly enjoy the end! Also the roads in Namibia are very unpaved and thus SLOW!

We camped this evening within the park grounds at Sesriem, so that tomorrow morning we can be one of the first groups to reach the fabled Dune 45 (More about that tomorrow). It's a lovely campsi...

10 April 2009 - Friday Once we were awake, this time only once we were fully rested and not as a result of people already packing up at sparrow's ****, we loaded all our bedraggled belongings into the two bakkies and head out of the camp site towards Solitaire. We waited for a while for Terence to catch up in his bakkie, as Tannie Daline wrote up some comments and thoughts from the trip. While waiting at the gate, Bernard investigated the little hut standing at the gate. Investigation reveale...