Before I describe the journey to Swakopmund, please indulge me while I tell you about one of THE best experiences of the entire trip and maybe my life. For those who have seen my Facebook posts or who I have emailed about this already, it is old news. I have always wanted to do this and I finally did – I skydived!! I went up in a Cessna with no side door, joined by another jumper from our G Adventure group, as well as a photographer for him and an instr...

Radiant. Infinite. Vast. And as Van Morrison says: Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know. We have never seen stars like this! We are in Waterberg Plateau National Park, a brick-red sandstone table mountain range that seems to go on forever and is surrounded by Nambian savannah. After driving north from Windhoek, we arrived here to an almost empty park. Our group ventured a steep climb up to the plateau before s...