Driving to Harare

It rained all night – the first rain we’ve had since first getting to Namibia. I woke up at 1.30am and just couldn’t get back to sleep. I got up to have a shower just after 4.30am!

We had to be ready for breakfast with our tents down and correctly stowed by 6am. Henry had cooked porridge, as well as fried eggs, toast, and baked beans. As I suspected, the newbies hadn’t listened to Laban last night, and put their large packs under the truck where the chairs should go. Laban asked anyone who had done this to move them and stow them in their lockers. Nobody responded, so he took matters into his own hands and moved them into the truck! This caused uproar! The newbies complained that their packs wouldn’t fit, that they were fed up of being treated like children, that this wasn’t a holiday, it was a bootcamp, etc, etc. They got no sympathy from us!!

Despite the issues, we managed to get packed up and were on the road by 6.45am, heading for Harare. The roads weren’t too bad, but we did have several diversions around road building or improvement projects happening ahead of Zimbabwean elections next month! We stopped twice in service stations to use the toilets. The second time, I bought a couple of very large packets of plain biscuits from a lady in the car park for the princely sum of US$1!!

The photos 📸 attached to this footprint 👣 were taken from the truck on the way to Harare.Read more