001361 I - Silver Sands Holiday Village Namibia

After spending a few days in Swakopmund we started heading north via a ziz-zag route that took us to Karibib, Omaruru,Otjiwarongo, Outjo,Khorixas Kamanjab and Opuwo. Opuwo was our last stop for diesel and it seemed to be a butsling little town. And then soon we were leaving Opuwo behind, making our way along a dusty, but good quality, dirt road. <br><br>It was hot as we drove on through the afternoon taking in the everchanging landscape as ...

... introduced from other areas of Namibia and South Africa. The plateau is a huge, flat-top massif 50 km. (30 mi.) long, 16 km. (10 mi.) wide, and 200 m. (656 ft.) high. There are animals, including some big game, that live on the plateau and once up there, there is no way down due to the cliffs. It&#8217;s like nowhere to run, nowhere to hide and, in the animal kingdom, that&#8217;s not a good thing as survival is paramount.<br><br>The other significant ...

... head).  This granite isle burg is the remnant of an ancient volcano.  It stands 1728 metres above the ground and because of its distinctive shape it is commonly known as the Matterhorn of Africa.  We set up camp at the base of one of the rocks and our bushman arrived to take us out for a stroll to the "Bushman's Paradise."  Well I don&#8217;t know about paradise but the rock formation that he took us to contained some interesting drawings ...

... around ideas forever but couldn&#8217;t come up with anything that would be really interesting or funny. Finally, we decided to meld together some of our random ideas and just be funny. So the girls put on shorts and our bikini tops, we cut holes in the bottom and the sides of the bin liners and then put them over our heads. Meanwhile Gabe had a surprise for the group, he put on my bikini top and bikini bottoms and a bag over his body ...

... at Camp Kwando &#8211; even if some were slower than others! The Davies can only travel at 90 &#8211; 100kmph, so they are the slow and steady group &#8211; we overtook them on the way, but then they sneaked past us when we were refueling! When we caught up with them again and overtook them, we played Queens &#8216;We Are The Champions&#8217; over the radio &#8211; well, we thought it was funny!!<br><br>Camp Kwando is a very beautiful ...

WOW!!!!!!!<br> jbc<br> This will go down as one of (if not the) favorite activity of the trip. Ian &amp; John woke very early to join an Africat guide and tracker to spot hyenas. In our open land Cruiser we tried a few locations and but were not very lucky. The guide decided to have a look closer to where a leopard made a ...

... insert s- word if you like) moment. It's the kind of moment that you wish you could transport all of your loved ones so that they too could witness it. That night, we had makeshift s'mores. We used plain cookies since graham crackers don't exist outside of the US. It was so neat to see all of these people from around the world try s'mores for the first time. I think it was a great success.

... Anne and Dave who travel EVERY winter from their shack (yes, I think it is the original Love Shack) on Lake Tahoe) Namibia's infrastructure is advanced and they way the operate is much more efficient. Surprise surprise. But, Swakopmund could really be mistaken for a town in Germany , there are loads of Germans, as well as Afrikaans living here and you can buy great German bread and go to some places without seeing a black face. This is one of the ...

... a stick to pull it out and it kept getting longer and longer then it tried to strike him. He beat it with his Maglite torch and he thought it was dead so he put it in a closed wastebasket. The next morning when he went to throw it out, it jumped out at him again and tried to strike him. Luckily, Vincent had broken its jaw, so it could not bite him, but it definitely scared him! I don't really want to see a black mamba!

... got sand everywhere! But even Lu did it - she rode down on someone's back! When we left the dunes, we somehow got off the trail and then we got stuck in the sand in our truck! We tried to get out of it a few times and it kept getting deeper and deeper and I was a little worried because we were in the middle of nowhere - no people, nothing! But luckily we got the Desert Explorer guys on their cell phone and they came and pulled us out of the sand. Then we went ...