Full on.Those words just didn't cover it today.The day started at 4:45am, we packed up and dress and then had to push start Helena (the truck) in the dark.During the night a springbok had come and had her baby behind the truck and he was still there in the morning.

We jumped on the truck and headed out for Sossusvlei and the highest dunes in the world.I managed to climb almost to the top of dune 45 to watch the sunrise.Climbing up a giant sand dune after camping for three days is possibly the hardest thing I have ever done.

After we came down from the dune, we had breakfast around the truck and then drove into the desert for about 15 minutes.We about 20 of us were then herded onto the back of a ute, standing up and taken out to meet the desert bushman.The bushman taught us all about the desert and the animals that live there.It was hot and this experience only lasted for an hour, but even after half an hour the water in my bottle was too hot to drink and I was left feeling a little dizzy from the heat.Sossusflei, mean "the place where people disappear" and we got to see the part of the desert that was used in the film, "The Cell", which was really freaky.

We got back on the ute and taken back to the truck.We got on the truck and drove for a further hour and a half to a rest stop. We then drove for another three hours to the absolute middle of nowhere, where we pitched tents and set up camp.On the way to our bush camp we saw warthogs, Zebras and a Jackal.When we got to the camp, the area was swarming with insects, including butterflies, which were beautiful and landed all over us.

At night while we were eating dinner a little desert fox came to check us out, this seemed to be the only animal in Namibia with no fear of humans and he got quite close to us.I went to bed quite early, the next day we head for Swakopmund and a city with a hotel and real beds!!!!!