Yes, it finally happened - a reunion with our luggage! We left Swakopmund very early and found it quite a picturesque journey back to Windhoek, We chose to take the sealed road all the way rather than the shorter unsealed route. Eerily there were quite dense patches of fog which slowed us down somewhat and then whilst we were still some 80 km out of Windhoek, the petrol gauge suddenly dropped from 1/4 full to dead empty. This is not a land where petrol stations a...

There is a point on a long haul bus trip that you question your sanity - why would you put yourself through this?We boarded our bus at 12.00 noon and five hours later we were not very far into our journey, having spent most of this time going through the formalities at both sides of the border. Every body's luggage was unloaded and searched by the Namibian authorities. After this the bus drove on through the night, with not too many stops, and eventually we a...