So we left Swakopmund early, noone was actually functioning proprerly at that time as it had been a hectic but fun few days. Our next destination was Sesriem, which is the gateway to Sossuvlei the iconic Namibian dunes that everyone talks about. The day started out cloudy and it looked like rain however a few hours later and the sun was burning very brightly and very hot in the sky. All was quiet on the bus though as most of the truck got some sleep after stockin...

Etosha National Park a vast pan consisting of 20 000 square kilometres of land and home to a vast array of animals. We were to spend the next two days and nights within this park boundary putting to use our animal spotting skills, brilliant.So we headed to our first camp Namutoni, now Martina had told us that if we were to spot anything we should press the buzzer to let her know so we could stop. So imagine my excitement when we had not been in the park more than...

Now where was I, I cannot remember it was so long ago since I updated my journal so therefore all of the journal dates are out of sync until I consult the manually constructed kind, the one that is hand written that also is unfortunately a litte behind! So after the fish and chip incident and the drunken locals trying to pull the tent down everybody finally got some sleep. However it was an early start for me the next morning as I was on cooking duty that day, ...

Well we finally arrived into our last destination in South Africa, Johannesburg. I have too admit that we barely did anything except visit the mall firstly because  we wanted to save money and secondly there is a lot of scaremongering stories around that kind of puts you off venturing out anywhere, all probably not true but im sure some have good standing. So not much to report really except do not stay in gemini hostel it is rubbish however I thnk there are ...

Well we managed to get a cheeky lie in while the other poor devils from some other tour group had to get up to hike up dune 45 at ridiculous o clock , oh how lovely the ground felt on my 1cm foam mat as they rumbled away in their truck!.Not much later though everyone began to stir as we wanted to get away to beat the heat of the morning sun which would turn into the blazing afternoon sun. With everything packed away we all jumped onto the truck and set off into t...