Lunch at Rundu on the Angolan border

We had a slightly later start this morning with a 7.30am breakfast of fried tomatoes and eggs. Nevertheless, after yet another freezing cold night, I was up at 5.30am! At least the water in the showers was hot! The internet was working this morning, so we were able to do a few updates. We didn’t have nearly long enough, though! We were on the road by 8.30am for a long driving day to our next campsite, ready to cross the border into Botswana tomorrow.

We had a bushy bushy stop before reaching the town of Rundu on the border with Angola, where we had a two-hour stop for lunch. We didn’t need that long, but the crew needed to shop, and we found a nice hotel garden to sit in. We had wifi, views of Angola, peacocks for company, and a toastie for lunch. It was a pleasant place to spend the time.

As we drove further north in Namibia, the landscape was flat and dry. There were lots of small communities where extended families live within fenced compounds, similar to the ones we visited in the Gambia.Read more