With Fish River Canyon under our belts, we packed up Lester and set off for the infamous Sossusvlei Sand Dunes. The distance was a few hundred km. Even taking into consideration the gravel roads, the trip should have taken 1 day; it took 3. We didn’t get flats, didn’t run out of gas or run into other car trouble…the problem was the landscape (in particular the stretch between Aus and Sesriem). It was just way too pretty. Actually, “incredibly stunning desert scenery” would be more accurate. I know this sounds positively corny, but at every bend we would each gasp and say: “Wow, look at that!”. Then we would get out of the car and Spiros and Diana would run up and down the road taking photo after photo.
We’re convinced the only reason the TDA didn’t take us down these roads had to be because they knew they just wouldn’t be able to get Spiros, never mind Diana, into camp by nightfall. They both claim they would have hid somewhere, ditched the sweep and completely given up on getting to Cape Town by May 10th. If the landscape wasn’t incredible enough, we also stopped off at a lookout for wild horses. As we approached, we spotted one horse, then two, then suddenly we saw hundreds of them. What a sight! Beautiful animals; we could have stayed all day.
Namibia is a photographer’s dream, evidenced by the fact that we literally stopped the car every few 100m so that Spiros and Diana could take more photos. I’m not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination, but I loved soaking up the scenery and love looking at the photos, so I didn’t mind the stops at all. Nevertheless, they didn’t want me to get bored, so they regularly sedated me with massive amounts of caffeine and sweets. Sniff…Its nice when people know you so well. (BTW, I have considered reducing the number of times I refer to my weakness for food in the blog, but “I gots to be me”. Sorry.) Anyway, tomorrow we see Sossusvlei. If an old mailbox, albeit a pretty old mailbox, garners this much attention; how long do you think the dunes are going to take us? We may be in trouble.
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