The gang and I set out for a 10 day whirlwind tour of Namibia on April 22. After little hiccup on the way there, we passed briefly through Windhoek, the capital, and went to our first big stop, Soussevlei.
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The road in was a little, uh, notional |
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The dunes |
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Climbed on top of them |
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and rolled down, of course. |
Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world, just after Mongolia, so we would rive through miles and miles of beautiful terrain and not see a single person. These pictures are from our drive from Soussevlei to Swakopmund.
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Just a few of those miles. |
Consequently, visiting Namibia necessitates many long hours in the car.
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Which is fine when the views are like this. |
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Some parts of the country are a little more desolate. |
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Swakopmund |
We headed north out of Swakopmund to see the seals.
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There are a lot of them. |
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They are very loud, smelly, and silly. |
I have a lot of seal pictures, but I will spare you.
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The skeleton coast lives up to its name. |
We tried to go and see Welwitschias, a plant that is considered a living fossil and found nowhere else in the world, but our efforts were thwarted when the river flooded for the first time since 1974.
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The raging torrent wiped out the road. |
After our failed adventure, we turned north and headed to Etosha National Park. We saw 81 giraffes during our two days in the park.
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Just a start. |
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There are so many zebras living close together in Etosha that they are a hotbed for disease and infection. |
These next few pictures are just a few selected from my upcoming coffee table book,
Etosha National Park: Things Standing in the Road, available wherever fine books are sold.
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Hyenas |
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Mr Elephant. |
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The most terrifying thing I have ever seen. |
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Lions! A little further away this time. |
After our Etosha adventure, we headed back south and spent a day in Windhoek, which is a really beautiful city.
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Downtown. |
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The gardens around Parliament, currently hosting a wedding. |
After Windhoek we began the long trip back to Gabs. I then spent three days in Gabs taking care of all of my finals for the semester and then headed to Cape Town for a week before my internship started on the 16th. Pictures of that to come.