Ready to "Go" @ 05h00
2017年7月9日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
UK visitors ✓
Swiss visitors ✓
4x4 vehicles✓
Food ✓
Biltong ✓
G&T's ✓✓✓
Wine ✓✓
Warm clothes ✓
Passports ✓
Pienk Padstal
2017年7月9日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Once again the Pienk Padstal stop was worth a giggle 😂
Day 1 Done & Dusted
2017年7月9日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Freezing cold when we left at 05h30 ... 😨
Arrived safely at Augrabies after about 900km!
Day 2 - The Richtersveld
2017年7月10日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C
Today it's "Farewell" to civilization as we know it 😲
No connectivity, only carrier crows (not even pigeons) and those are scare 😃. Dirt roads will become the norm, rather than the exceptionもっと詳しく
Day 3 - Tatasberg
2017年7月10日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Lovely to have to whole camp to ourselves 😆
Richtersveld 1
2017年7月11日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Richtersveld 2
2017年7月11日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Amazing scenery and wide open spaces.
Day 4 - Sunrise @ Kokerboomkloof
2017年7月12日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Beautiful quiet campsite. Amazing sunrise over the hills.
Shit happens ....
2017年7月12日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
After warning the visitors to watch out for rocks on the road .... A hidden little b@stard surprised us 😲
Thank goodness we had an Engineer with us 😆
Helskloof
2017年7月12日, 南アフリカ ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
After a quick tyre change we made our up and over Helskloof on our way to get the Pont across to Namibia at Sendlingsdrift
And another one ...
2017年7月12日, ナミビア ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
After 30 years of travelling to the bush, we've never had a tyre problem 😨. Today our luck ran out ... 2 tyres in the space of 8 hours .... 😲
I guess we'll be going tyre shopping inもっと詳しく
3's
2017年7月12日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
They say things happen in 3's ..... 😲😨
Thankfully we had 40l on the roof ☺
Paul Goosen
How? You are still in civilization. What's going to happen when you leave the beaten track?
Day 5 - Canyon Roadhouse
2017年7月13日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
This place has grown immensely since our last stop here 15 years ago. Then it was a small little Padstal where we had a toasted jaffle and got some fuel.
Day 6 - Fish River Canyon
2017年7月13日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
After a quick shopping trip to Keetmanshoop for 2 new tyres, we got to Fish River Lodge.
Day 7 - Fish River to Sossusvlei
2017年7月14日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
After a very comfortable night at the Fish River Lodge, we're making our way up to Sossusvlei.
Helmeringshausen
2017年7月14日, ナミビア ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Passing through the metropolis of Helmeringshausen on our way up to Sossusvlei, we stopped for fuel and ice-cream 😊
A well stocked shop selling everything from biltong to brandy and Mr Muscleもっと詳しく
Coffee stop
2017年7月14日, ナミビア ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
A coffee stop on the way to Sesriem. A social weaver nest which has been abandoned and the reason for 50% of the dust in the car 😂
Sossusvlei
2017年7月15日, ナミビア ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
So many buses, so many people 😨
Went all the way to the vlei hoping to find water, but no such luck. Dry as a bone 😲
Our energetic guests decided they want to climb a dune, so we found themもっと詳しく
Sesriem Canyon
2017年7月15日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
A stop at the canyon before going back to camp for some lunch and a snooze 😊
Sossusvlei to Luderitz
2017年7月16日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
A scenic drive along all the back roads to Luderitz
Final preparation
2017年7月16日, ナミビア ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Pauli & Jeff here safely✓
Petrol ✓
Water refilled ✓
Last night in a REAL bed ✓
About to head off into the wide beyond
2017年7月17日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
With Volker and Johnny of Desert Magic
Entering the Sperr Gebied
2017年7月17日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
After each driver had to blow into a breatherliser at the security section, we headed to the Restricted Area.
Charlotten Tal
2017年7月17日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
A diamond mine last used 100 years ago. 480 000 carats mined here.
Deflating tyres and briefing
2017年7月17日, ナミビア ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C