Kobo Kobo Hills Mountain Camp
Travel Blogs from Namib-Naukluft Park
Just Deserts
... day before we board the truck which can be spent filling your cracks with sand in various ways. We chose sandboarding in the dunes just outside the city. We are doing it with a couple of other people on the tour including, Beryl, a 79 year old superfit grandmother and her grandson Ben who is forced into taking part in all the crazy activities that Beryl does to save face.
Remembering how much I hated snowboarding and how utterly terrible ...
The Ayers Rock of Africa
Sunday 7th November 2010
Today we said goodbye to Mike and Rachey. Pretty sad. They got a pink VW taxi to the next town and they caught a shuttle to Windhoek. They are heading to Jo'Burg then Nepal tomorrow, so that was ****. But they will have fun and hopefully we will catch up with them when they get back to NZ in March. The rest of the day – after their drop off and supermarket shop was spent driving to Spitzkoppe.
Spitzkoppe was ...
Guided tour definitely well under way!
... new hotel, we would know exactly which one to go to. The location was right beside the huge shopping mall as that was handy.
October 19th Tuesday
Had a excellent breakfast and said our goodbye’s to the hotel staff that we had got to know. They were very friendly and the hotel was pretty empty, so we got extra attention. The hotel had been built for the world cup in June and so had not been marketed properly after the cup was ...
World Cup and start of our overland trip!
Johannesburg appeared to us to be a very big, ugly and potentially scary city. But we were only there for 2 things - world cup and our overland tour. We were very lucky to get world cup tickets and on 20th June we went to see Brazil vs Ivory Coast in Soccor City. Was amazing to be there!
Then on 22nd of June very early in the morning we went to a place ...