Our free day in Namibia
hey hey people,
so Namibia is awesome, after finally being able to get out of the city and run around in the Namib I’ve made up my mind that I like this country.
On our free day we decided to try and see as much of Namibia as possible, we got left at 5am and drove to a little german village near the coast (can’t remember the name) on the way there we made a few stops to take pictures, the desert is reallyt f’ing huge and beautiful. I turned over a lot of rocks because I really wanted to take a picture of a snake or scorpion, but they were nowhere to be found. I guess there simply arent any snakes in Afrika…
after we arrived in the village and picked up some lunch we drove to the coast, it really smelled like rotting fish there and I wondered why so I decided to go have a look, there were lots of dead octopusses and fishes everywhere, and a lot of crayfish, and there were lots of people (white people) catching them, it felt really wrong and strange because it can’t be that all those animals just died there…
after that we headed to some sand dunes along skeleton coast which was really impressive, it’s basically what you expect it to be from all the pictures you’ve seen only much much much bigger. I tried to run up a sanddune and well, was exhausted for a while, the view was stunning with the ocean on 1 side and the sand dunes (also an ocean) on the other.
I took lots of pics and Marieke did some sand boarding there, which looked scary.
after that we drove back (3 hours) to a wildlife park close to Windhoek where we had a safari, the surrounding were really different from what we had just seen, it was a jungle, we got to see a lot of cool animals (crocs, lions, rhinos, oryx, gemsbok, heartbeast, giraffes etc. etc. it took about an hour and a half and I really enjoyed it.
Jelle filmed a special Webisode while we were there, a sorta behind the scenes crews day off video, which will be some sort of easteregg on the site.
After the safari we had dinner, I ate Oryx which tasted good.
when we got back to the lodge I was really tired, and went to bed pretty early.
what a great day.
Ha, couldn’t be gladder that you were unable to uncover an angry snake! Can’t wait to see the pictures (and webisode) when they come up.