Not long down the road we stopped at Moose's Bakery at a place called Solitare, called so basically because there is nothing there! Moose was well known for his apple pie so as well as a slice of that we got some other goodies too - they were delicious! After another short drive (short being anything under 6 hours now!) we stopped at our camp for a quick toilet break and necessary paperwork before continuing on to Dune 45, one of the only high accessible dunes i...

After the adrenaline and activity of Swakopmund we were due a relaxing stop and our next destination was just that. We had a short shop stop on the edge of Swakopmund before we were on our way shortly after 8. The drive took us through the mainly featureless expanse of the Namib desert, a hot, dry and hostile environment. The name Namib means "vast place" which seemed very apt to me. This coupled together with the fact very few people inhabit the area gave...