Today we headed for Namibia. As it is a long drive, we are breaking it into 2 drive days and so tonight was a bush camp. As the sun dipped below the horizon and our muscles really started to ache from sitting on the truck for 12 hours we finally slowed down and thought that a site for a bush camp had been found. Ruth and Nick have to date found a site which is off the road so that we can be as inconspicuous as possible and we can not play music loud on the truck or set up our tents till sunset. Today a whole new set of rules came in to play. We pulled up beside the main road and set up our tents within 10m of the main road with just the truck between our tents and the truck. At the back of our tents stood a cattle yard. Perhaps alarm bells should have rung, but we had blind faith in our tour leaders and thought – they know what they are doing, surely! Being beside a road we all went to bed by about 9.30pm, Laura and I watched few episodes of the latest TV series we have been watching courtesy of Zac. About 11pm things go exciting. We first heard a few cow bells and thought… hmmm, wonder what that is. Then we heard mooing and knew that something was going down outside our humble abode. A quick head poke out of the tent confirmed that there were about 100 head of cattle with one lonely cattle herder walking past our tents down the road. Laura decided when one came too close to the tent to wave her flip flop at it. Needless to say we were in fits of giggles and could not comprehend why our fellow travellers were quietly in their tents not making a peep, surely they can all not sleep that heavily! We finally managed to drop off to sleep when we started to hear bells again and the herd, or perhaps a new herd came back past the tent. Hysterics of laughter had broken out at this point. We had a number of cows head butt our tent so we had to hit the inside of the tent and hope that they were not going to barge our tent – they are really not built to sustain any type of horned cow attack. By the time four donkeys wandered past literally 10cm from door we were in amazement that our fellow travellers were still silent and not totally over this surreal experience. Same herder was running about whistling and yelling instructions to the herd. At 1am the cows finally cleared but the donkeys were forgotten and decided to stay for the night grazing. It was just unfortunate that one had been installed with the noisiest bell I have ever heard! It was not a pleasant nights sleep in plain view of the world going past on the road. At 5am a truck driver decided it was time to wake up and even gave us a long sustained horn honk, just in case we had had too much sleep by this point. It was a long and sleepy day on the truck the following day.