2nd Largest Canyon in the world

Trip Start May 03, 2009
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Trip End Jul 10, 2009


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Hobas Fish River Campsite

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

We ventured to the south of Namibia and stayed at a campsite that was 10kms from Fish River Canyon. We set up camp, ate a fantastic lunch of fried chicken and rice [compared to the sandwiches that we normally have for lunch almost every day] and had the afternoon to ourselves. There was a group of us who decided to start out walking the 10kms to the Canyon because it was such a nice day. We walked for over an hour and made it almost half the distance before the truck met us on the road and drove us the rest of the distance.

Fish River Canyon is one of the natural wonders of Africa. It is 500m deep and over 160km long and is the second largest canyon in the world. We watched the sunset over the canyon and even tried throwing some rocks over the side but we weren't able to hear them hit the bottom. Apparently it is possible to hike the canyon. It takes 8 days and is really difficult because there is no water for you to drink so you have to carry everything with you. Last year a person was stung to death by bees and one of the people had to hike out to get help so since then, you need insurance that covers being flown out by helicopter before you are able to do the hike.

Once the sun went down, we had a really good dinner that had Rocko's favorite desert of date balls and chatted around the campfire before heading to bed. We head to South Africa tomorrow and it is a really quick drive before we get to our next campsite.

Brett and Robin
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