Our trip seems to be following a biblical theme. We've passed wars in the Middle East, famine in east Africa and now we have pestilence. Southern Namibia doesn't have much big game but it more than makes up for it with small creatures in big quantities. From Ameib our next stop was the Namib Desert. After a wonderful few days exploring the dune fields at Homeb we camped the night at Mirabib, a very remote un-staffed campsite in the shadow of a huge granite o...

Exploring Namibia was the original idea for the trip, and we have travelled through Africa a little quicker than we would have liked in order to allow ourselves time to fully explore the country that we have heard so much about. So far Namibia has lived up to our high expectations, delivering some spectacular views, amazing wildlife, varied landscapes and with a good dose of adventure thrown in for good measure. One thing we learnt very quickly though was that 5 ...