An extended lunch break in Sossusvlei

After Anne got back from climbing "Big Daddy's Dune" (that's the actual name!) an hour or so later, we headed further down the track to the Sossusvlei, another dried out plain that looked a bit less impressive but was easily accessible, and henceforth converted into a local picnic spot. We still had some of the food with us that we had gotten in Windhoek the previous afternoon, and enjoyed the parts of the breakfast now that were too impractical to carry up the dunes earlier in the day.

For our late breakfast/early lunch we enjoyed some fruit salad with yogurt and granola, and then realized that we are not going to be able to reach our originally intended destination before sunset. Therefore we decided to spend the time of day that the sunw as scorching and making everything rather unenjoyable in teh shades of a beautiful large tree. We got out our Kindle's and were reading for a bit, Anne took a nap, and I was considering the next steps for our route.

When we decided to head on, it was Anne's turn to drive. She is an experienced driver, but her driving license got stolen right before the trip, so she would only be driving on dirt roads and inside national parks for the remainder of our trip, where the risk of police checkpoints was lowest.Read more