Namibia

I'm on the first leg of my safari and internet time is very limited. 

I met the group in Cape Town (the W's on this key board is bad, so excuse the typos). After almost a week, it still seems like  good group.  There are 17 of us and the ages range from 19-68.

Day 2- we hiked up to Cape Point, where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean apparently meet (they don't really meet there, but it's as close as most people get to the actual place).  It was a miseable rainy day, but e did the hike anyway.  We lost the path at one point, so we randomly walked down the side of the mountain.  It had stopped raining at that point, but it was very amusing hen our guide, who was aiting for us at the bottom, pointed out where we were supposed to be coming from....he was impressed at our trail blaing skills and said that we were indeed getting the "real African experience"- which is his intention for the trip.

That night we camped at a winery and had a braii for dinner (a typical South African bbq).  It was FREEZING (relative terms) and I was starting to think I didn't pack right.

Day 3- Drove 10 hrs. To pass the time, myself and the other Rebecca on the trip started a scavendure hunt for the bus. People have to find these things as we travel. There was everything on there from a pink car, a mailbox, a little girl, lion, scorpion, etc. Most of the people on the trip are really into it. We've found about 1/2 the list so far. We haven't found the sheep's head (not attached to a sheep) yet. We thought it would have been easy cause it was on the menu in Cape Town

Day 4- We woke up at the Camp site at the Orange River and went canoeing.  Lana and I were the only all female boat and represented well.  We were also in the orange canoe, which seemed fitting.  We saw lots of native birds.  It as amazing!

Camped near Fish River Canyon, where we watched the sunset.

Day 5- Drove past the Fish River.  There were no fish and it wasn't much of a river either...hmmm.  Dorve the rest of the day.  Nights are getting warmer.

Day 6- Woke up at 4:15 am to watch the sunrise over the sand dunes.  Hiked up a dune that was over 100m and enjoyed a stunning vie before running all the way down.  Then went to a desert walk is Sossa Vlei and learned about how much life there actually is in the desert and how it sustains itself.  We saw a spider that makes a trap door, hidden in the sand, and how the bushmen used to live.

We spent that night sleeping in the desert.  It was windy, but not cold (and the 1st of the past 3 nights that there ere no jackles around).  My tent almost blew away when we were trying to peg it into solid rock.  woke up this morning to a stunning sunrise (and at a normal hour of 6:30 am)

That takes us to today, Day 7.  I'm in Swakopmund, a German town in Namibia.  I'm going on a sunset horseback ride this evening and tomorrow sandboarding on the dunes. 

I'll update again when I can.