Sossusvlei Lodge Windhoek

... SWAPO supports. The Kandjii's however were a harsh reality check for me. Not everyone in this country is so progressive.<br>It was really sad for me to see them act like everything in their country is peachy when clearly it's not. Overall it was a good week. We didn't do too much. On day 2 we went to a soccer game which was AWESOME! We watched the Orlando Pirates vs. Black Africa. Orlando Pirates from Namibia, not South Africa for anyone who follows ...

... You can see the flower, but can you see the yin and yan?  What about the heart and the other symbols that occur in groups of three?  She was in actually a white Kenyan who was living in Cape Town teaching people how to grow vegetable gardens.  But her VISA was up so she had to leave to get a new one so came to Namibia.  She thought it would be a quick process, but was told it would take 5 days.  Shame, as she only brought 2 t-shirts!<br><br>Then there is Henrick.  Look ...

... noise and visual pollution too...and as you may guess, I reckon I've become rather sensitive to it all. This is what I've been dealing with today, trying to explore, and enjoy, Windhoek but feeling kept back, both physically and mentally - I was very tired and moody. We drove around town and all ...

... to store our bags for "free". I wasn't concerned but I became concerned when the german girl, who had been there many times kept asking if our stuff would be safe. We also gave him a tip. I made a point of telling him that I wasn't worried because all I had in there was my dirty laundry..which was pretty much true! I asked the guy to help me with my transfer and he gave me a ridiculous price so I asked reception (this was a 4 star hotel in the mall by the way) and ...

... people on the streets and only moderate traffic, creating more of a small town atmosphere. If you want to experience real people, take an organized cultural tour to Katatura township with its thousands of tiny tin sheet dwellings sprawling like a gigantic silver patchwork quilt over the hillsides outside Windhoek. Katatura was created in the 1950´s aparthied days and the name means "place where we do not want to settle" in Herero language. It still draws people in search of ...

... a ton of desert space. We ended by driving by a waterhole at sunset. It looked like a movie. Great experience. The drive back was quick but it let us get a good 20 minute powernap because we were planning on going out to a club that night with Aussies. We decided to grab dinner on the way back and we ate at this awesome tourist trap in Windhoek called Joe's Brewhouse. It was a bar/restaurant famous for its game meat. All seven of us got to relax for a few and the guys ...

... changed amazingly. One moment it was completely flat and next moment we were in featureless sand plains with nothing in sight in all directions. We drove through scrub and grasslands to slate rock hills and canyons to red granite boulder mountains. The stunning Mowani Lodge itself is nestled atop one of these mountains, which looks like giant piles of round, red boulders. We slept in a large canvas tents complete with shower, bathroom and king sized beds with a ...

... bliss). After a late sending off evening, Bruce drove us to Cape Town airport for the 9am departure ... all a bit fuzzy after little sleep, planning or prior knowledge of what to expect. As we flew over Namibia it looked incredible, unbelievable and unknowable in the variation of terrain and estimation of scale. The sun was warm and the sky clear as we got through passport control and walked towards the car hire counters ready for a relaxing ...

As expected the bus we planned to take from Livingstone to Windhoek broke down before it reached Livingstone, and noone could answer whether or not it was leaving the wednesday it was supposed to. We went to the travel agant to find out, but they could not help us. Stuck in Livingstone we had the option of going back to Lusaka with bus (loooong ride), flying to Joburg (expensive) or waiting until sunday (could get in trouble with the visas we ...

... he was then joined by Christina the youngest girl. Eventually I had to go back to the volunteer building and we had a task of digging holes for the posts required for the baboon enclosure. The rain had made the first few inches relatively easy to dig but thereafter it was dry and stony and difficult - and we had to dig down nearly 2 feet! After 2 hours we had decided to stop for a break as it was tiring work and ...