Day 4 of our journey, another early morning saw us on our way to Sossusvlei, a clay pan in the Namib desert, surrounded by some of the world's largest sand dunes. We arrived at our camp site mid-day and took the day to relax by the pool and make use of the scalding-hot water in the showers. That day I had purchased a large supply of Tassenberg (cheap red wine) and Coke in order to make punyapunya- a popular drink in the north, made up of simply mixing the two, ...

...Continued from last blog, Cape Town, South Africa... Since a good chunk of our morning had been eaten up by the excitement of the morning, it was nearly noon by the time we caught at taxi to Table Mountain, a big plateau in the middle of the city. It's a 4-minute tram, with a rotating floor, up the mountain, or a 1.5 hour hike if you're really ambitious. The view was..spectacular. From on top of the plateau you could see the city stretching out on all sid...