The second part of our independent trip was in Namibia and it was amazing!! Recommended. We landed about lunchtime on our first day and made some enquiries about car hire, our plan for Namibia. It was not reassuring. The prices were much higher than I had anticipated. In the end we ended up hiring a little VW Chico from AVIS at the airport. So we drove off into Namibia on our own and it was a great feeling. But it was also wierd - so like Australia in terms of landscape, and conveniently they drive on the same side of the road as us in Namibia which made it much easier, but the road signs were wierd! We headed straight to Windhoek, the capital, about 45 kms away. After a bit of messing around at tourism
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