Beach Lodge Swakopmund

Went rafting with John on the Wednesday - a gloriously hot day as my legs got toasted - was quiet apprehensive about the not being not able to swim thingy but was comforted by the fact that even if you were in trouble you would probably be goosed anyway - 23 rapids - 1st one John went in for a swim - kind of broke the raft on number 8 - a few bumps and bruises until number10 where John fell out again - then we had a break - was no less comforted by the fact that a guy on the other boat disloc...

Namibia 11 Nov - 22 Nov On the train to Kapri Mposhi and in Jolly Boys in Livingston we met a Kiwi (Greg) and a young English chap (Will). Between the 4 of us we hired a car to do the tour of Namibia. Namibia is a large country, about 18m km2 with a population of only around 2m - quite a lot of sand then. We got the overnight bus from Livingston to Windhoek and were met by the two lads at 7am which was nice of them. Later that day we made our way to Swakopmund by a 4 hr mini bus. Swakopmund i...

The day after our arrival into Swakopmund a couple of us headed into the dunes for some sandboarding. We certainly got our exercise walking up the dune repeatedly. I had naiivly thought, that they would put us beginners onto a small slope at least to start off with, but we were on the same very steep, high slope as the advanced people EEK! Eventually we managed to get over the fear and managed to get a few good runs standing up for a while without falling over. Much. It was great fun, and som...

Arrived in Swakopmund, Namibia's premiere beach resort. Much German architecture here. Took a look about the township. Lovely markets down by the beach with wood carvings and such. Young kids in traditional garb dancing about. Sam took to the quad biking in the afternoon. The group was taken by bus to the desert just outside the township. He saddled up on a 250cc beast. A few sweet jumps wangled him a spot in the fast group. High turns across the face of the dunes followed by stomach wrenchin...

3 days drive via a petrified forest and Cape Cross seal colony (120,000 seals in one place sticks) to the resort of Swakopmund - a bit like Benidorm for Germans Spent the morning sea fishing off a boat - caught mostly inedible crayfish, but also a few bream, including a massive one that got away... Watched an enormous sandstorm come out of the desert. Lazy afternoon then went quad biking at dusk, watching the sunset over the dunes was wonderful, but made even better by the presence of a reall...