Aller lààààà!!! :-) So happy to discover the Namib desert, with 1st a sunrise hike on Dune 45, then the Sosusvlei & Deadsvlei areas, really so beautiful and different from anything.
We arrived around 5:45am down the Dune 45, with the sky
starting to light up the dunes of a still dark color… Walking the 100m ascent
up the dune was fantastic, as light kept changing every minute, revealing a
scenery which I had dreamt of. Being on the top for sunrise, discovering
reddish colors brightening all the dunes around was magic.
The pictures are actually not paying a real tribute to how
it is to be in this environment, I will have to go back… ;-)
After a well deserved breakfast with the team in this exceptional surrounding, we drive towards Sosusvlei, which is still about red dunes and desert, but has the a remaining dried / burned vegetation of an ancient river flowing here more than 500 years ago. Dunes progression stopped the river flow, and created a blowing scenery of white-dry river bed, black dried trees, and the dunes around. Very puzzling!!
Back to the truck for another 3-4h drive (300 km, short for once), direction Swakopmund, the Namibian capital of adreline sports J. Almost everything can be done there, and we are having 2 nights in the same place, youhouh!
Having a big dinner eating Oryx… as we had see many on the road crossing the country. Actually, very good and tender.
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