Today our destination is Windhoek, Namibia's capital city. Total distance is some 550km which translated into travel time in the truck means 8-9 hours on the road! Early start it is then! First of all we had a short drive to the edge of Etosha and just 5 minutes outside the campsite we had a surprise! Two lions, a male and a female were right there on the side of the road. It was clear from their behaviour they were a mating pair and Siziba explained that ...

This morning Siziba gave us a choice…we could either spend the day driving back slowly the way we came yesterday covering some different side roads and hopefully seeing some lions along the way or we could head north. The reason we had this choice was because our campsite for the night is the one we visited for lunch yesterday, some 100+ kilometres away. If we head north it means we only get the morning to rush around a new area of the park we haven't seen ...

A short drive this morning of just 5 hours (with a break in a small town for delicious pastries at a local bakery whilst Vincent once again picked up fresh supplies) and we arrive in Etosha National Park. This place is well documented on various TV channels just like the Serengeti and Chobe so is pretty famous as a tourist attraction. It is also one of the only parks where the overland companies can drive their own trucks and carry out their own guided tours ...

Today we drove another 5 or so hours to our campsite which is literally in the middle of nowhere. Well, there is a village nearby but it's a Himba tribal village and this is the purpose of our visit. Once again I'll quote from our itinerary regarding the Himba's:- "The Himba are descendents of the Herero people and still speak a dialect of the old Herero language. There are about 20 000 - 50 000 Himba people living in the Kunene region, where they have recen...

Quote from our itinerary:- "The Spitzkoppe (also referred to as Spitzkop, Groot Spitzkop, or the "Matterhorn of Namibia"), is a group of bald granite peaks located between Usakos and Swakopmund in the Namib Desert. The granite is more than 700 million years old and the highest outcrop rises about 1 784 m above sea level. The peaks stand out dramatically from the flat surrounding plains. The highest peak is about 700m above the floor of the desert below. A mino...