Blogs from Fish River Canyon, Namibia, Africa - page 2

"Breakfast at 8 leave at 9" The daily briefing complete, we leave the river lodge. Last night had ended with Jaeger shots, Jenga and a new way of drinking tequila that Charley showed us (with orange segments sprinkled with cinnamon). S today I'm feeling a little slow. Pam missed the late night activities having gone straight to bed after the truck ride. Today we are headed towards the Fish River Canyon, another short day over mainly gravel roads. Namibia is dryer than a witches t*t, as they say, and away from the river, virtually nothing seems to survive. We gain altitude slowly, the temperature around 17.5, so the vents are all zipped up. Easy going mainly, until after a short visit to the hot springs at Ai Ais (good coffee but otherwise not worth the detour) ... read more

Fish River Canyon, Namibia, 6 September 2012 After leaving our campsite at 7.45am, after having to wait 45 minutes for the Park gates to open, we travelled over unsealed, well graded roads. Again we viewed amazing scenery along the way. The Namib Desert continued to impress us with its rocky mountains either side of the road. We arrived at the Hobas Camp Site at about 4.00pm and set up our tents. At 5.00pm we then drove 10 kms to the Fish River Lookout for sunset. About 1 km from the lookout we heard a bang and we had another flat tyre. We arrived at the lookout cautiously. Instead of the truck dropping us off at this site then meeting us 2 kms along the canyon lip, we ended up walking along the top of the canyon ... read more

It isn’t hard to understand that just 2 million people live in Namibia as you drive a few hundred kilometers without meeting anyone – no cars, no houses, no people and just endless deserts. Here we are in middle of nowhere and don’t have any transportation to the south. It is during these times that we understand how helpless we are in this landscape. But nothing is impossible if you have some patience and try to reach your goal so our recent mission was to get a lift to the Fish River Canyon. Well it wasn’t easy and we cannot thank enough the amazing couple from South Africa who offered us a ride to the canyon from the Sossusvlei dunes, and we hang out with them for few days and we were dropped off in Springbok, ... read more

VERDER NAAR FISH RIVER CANYON EN RICHTERSVELD PARK...... read more

We started our drive from Lambert’s Bay, South Africa around 9am. We stopped for lunch at 1pm. We finally got to the border crossing around 3pm. It was pretty smooth considering John Locke told us that he has had many problems in the past with immigration folks. Ann, my wackadoo roommate couldn’t seem to figure out how to fill in the proper paperwork. This led us to believe that even though she speaks English, she may not be able to write in English. I offered my help several times, especially after she copied John Locke’s exact information. She went through 3 forms until she got it right. We then had another hour until we reached our destination for the night which is located on the Orange River. The landscape from South Africa to Namibia is extremely ... read more