Betesda Lodge & Camping
Travel Blogs from Namib-Naukluft Park
It's CHRISTMASSSSSSSSS!
Christmas day on the truck!!
The truck came to rescue us from Atlantic Villa as our illicit taxi luck had finally run out and we could get no one to take us into town at 6.30am! When we climbed aboard we were greeted with the interior bedecked with balloons, tinsel and fairy lights!
Everyone had decided to bring Christmas forward by a month.
We hit the road headed for another Namibian bush camp ...
Just Deserts
... the border back into South Africa the next morning and have a very exciting arrival in next campsite as we see the owners literally wrestling with a black spitting cobra which thankfully they manage to get into a bucket. Does make me question our sleep out under the stars night though. Spend the day paddling in the orange river and just chilling out. We had lasagne cooked on the braai for dinner which was really good (much better than when I was ...
The Goats Eyeball and the Breakdowns
OK, so I'm in an internet café in Swakomond eating some chocolate cake and drinking a cappuccino. Lots has happened since my last blog entry, but we’ve been out of reach of the internet or phones. Its funny how we almost expect to have web and phone access everywhere, but here of course it’s the exception. We are staying at the Dune 4 campsite on the beach that has free wi-fi, almost unheard of in Namibia and the students ...
Land of the Living Desert
... is some of the highest dunes in the world reaching 350m from sea level. Quite a thrill when you lay on a sandboard a go barrelling face first downhill in the soft sand - waxed of course! Sossuvlei is the photogenic dry salt pans surrounded by rusty red dunes. The Sessrium Park is a colorful quartz sand, and as you drive you are surrounded by 50,000sq km of orange, violet, greens that are shifting with the winds from the foggy sea - only 70km ...
Surpresas de um deserto alaranjado!
... inspeções e manutenções em dia, pode ter alguma distância...
Encaramos a rota e estamos muito felizes aqui contando essa história :-)
O voo foi tranquilo, viajamos olhando as ...