Our trip in total will
include around 5000 kilometers on the road, and we chose to take in 1300 of them
during the first two days. So I must say these pictures tell you all the
essential stuff you need to know:
We did have a quick
pit stop at the coastal town of Lüderitz, known for its pastel-coloured houses,
German-style cuisine and architecture and THE WIND. We have never experienced such a strong and constant blast in a clear day..
It was a nice place to see, but we were quite pleased not having booked a campsite by the beach.
A pretty interesting
place can be found on the way to Lüderitz: the ghost town of Kolmanskop, once a small but very rich mining village. Diamond industry provided miners such wealth, that they were able to build a German style town. If the town would be up and running, only the sand would distinct it from a regular German town. This
abandoned town has before the WWI had a casino, a theatre and a bowling alley and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well
as the first tram in Africa!!
Pretty difficult to imagine that…
For the night we had
made a campsite booking to Namtib Biosphere Reserve. It was located as our
Airbnb-host Riaan told us, by the most stunning road in Namibia, the D707. We
were way beyond any telephone service, and due to the great amount of kilometers to
tackle that day, the evening was approaching. But that made the drive even more
beautiful when the sun shed its light to the mountains by the road. Right
before the sunset we arrived to our destination, and were a bit surprised to
hear that the campsite would be located another 2 km off the premises,
literally in the middle of nowhere. We were told to pick any site we’d want,
with us there was just one other small group of campers, but with the distance between
the sites being more than enough it really felt like it was just us and the
occasional baboons and desert antelopes. By the time we pitched our tent it was
dark again (we were getting quite good at the nightly tent-pitching), and
around 8 pm it was time to start making dinner. This dinner accompanied by a
glass of wine/beer by the fire, under the sky full of stars and the moon
shedding light to our desert kitchen was something very special. It really felt
as though we were the only ones in the planet.
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