Jordani B&B Windhoek

It was certainly the coldest night so far as I slept under the stars (in my tent!). Had to tighten my mummy sleeping bag hood for the first time! Must have got down to near zero. In the desert, once the sun goes down (high 20's in the heat of the afternoons), the heat is lost from the ground. With no cloud cover, it was cold ... I can understand how Mandy and Tom as locals are feeling the cold. (Yes it is cold in the morning but I am not as much as the locals we meet.) It ...

... Cubano which is connected to The Warehouse Theatre. That place is so much fun! They have different DJs every night and play a lot of house and dance music. Very cool! I met a few Germans there. Most of them will be gone by the time I am done with my homestay, but a few fun ones (along with Xavier) will be here with me until mid-august.<br><br>So that was week one in a rather large nutshell.

... we reached the Tsodillo Hills. Here we did not skip the rock paintings (there's not much else to see) and took a 2 hour tour. After 10 minutes the guide pointed us at a black mamba hiding in a bush, and after 15 minutes another black mamba fell out of a little tree, about 2m away from us. Both Eline and the guide jumped into the air in utter fear, Arjen was solidified. We guess the snake was scared as well. On our way to Maun we had to hand in our newly bought meat again ...

... the same songs over and over again. He even left the booth several times so at one point...I broke in! I changed the music and got everyone dancing! After a few minutes the DJ came back and kicked me out and the entire dance floor booed. It was quite funny! In the morning, I got my stuff together and left saying quick goodbyes to everyone. I thank g-d for buses, transfers and flights that kept my brain too busy to think about parting with them. Nikki walked me to the ...

... bi trebalo da se organizuje unapred, svako opusteno blejanje bi ako ne poznajete nikoga mogla da vas kosta duplo skuplje. Zuta groznica ne treba, trbusni tifus pozeljno ali ne garantuje kao ni Hepatitis A, tetanus za svaki slucaj, Malarija ...videcemo na kraju. Antibiotici probiotici, autan (mada tamo ima bolja zamena zove se Buschmann), ...paraglajder, pasos, karta i pare. izlazak u grad pa sutra na avion!

... only one other home, which was built into the mountains, could be seen at all. It was picturesque. Before we started our first game drive we went to visit a baby cheetah that had an accident and was missing a leg. It was a very sad sight, but the safari people were at least taking care of him. The first part of the game drive was probably my favorite and also provided the coolest pictures. They baited a leopard by placing a few hunks of raw meet in a curved tree and we sat ...

... the burners, there is no noise. We floated for about an hour across the gravel plain near Sossusvlei, landing softly near some small dunes. A ground crew had followed us along a dry riverbed in their trucks and set up a fantastic Champagne brunch for everyone next to the dunes. In the afternoon, we drove about 40 km from Sossusvlei to nearby canyon land to Zebra River Lodge. Early in the morning we packed a picnic lunch and hiked up a canyon to Fig Tree Springs ...

April 12. The big day - departure from the safe confines of James/Roger's tight-knit enclosed community outside Capetown, where the wine seemingly flows forever, and the food is absolutely incredible. That is, with exception, to the mussels that we ate out in Franschoek which gave me a slight case of food poisoning. Or possibly it was just the acidity of the 30+ bottles that we put away in less than a week in ...

... is described as mushroom cream. I have the cream but less than 1 whole mushroom. Leaving the place, we see on the door: we have no mushrooms, sorry. They forgot to mention that when we ordered. We wanted to spend the New Year's days at the coast but everything is fully booked, so we go to the Namib Desert: looking at the dunes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namib_Dese rt After which we come back to this place for New Year .

... was wake up at 4 am to get our camp broken down and in line for the gate which opens at 5 am. Then we proceeded to drive at 120 km/hr (60 km/hr is the posted speed limit but everyone is going 120 km/hr) for about 35 minutes to the parking lot for the shuttle. The shuttle of course wasn't running yet so we then walked 4 km to get to "Big Daddy" the world's tallest dune. We climbed to the top in just under an hour ...