Our Holiday

Here is a short version of our trip:

We left Cape Town and drove for about 4 hours to Springbok, where we stopped and had lunch. This is a little town where my dad was born and grew up.

From there we continued another hour to our camp site on the banks of the Orange river with Namibia on the other side.

The second day we had to drive back to Springbok to get Tristan's tires sorted out, but ended up going there for nothing, as they couldn't help us.

On the 27th we drove to the Fish River Canyon. The drive there was mostly on a gravel road and by lunch time we drove in at the Canyon Roadhouse. It is a nice oasis in the middle of the dessert where we had a wonderful meal, met some nice people, and finally bought our key hooks for the house. The canyon was an amazingly spectacular experience that made me appreciate my place on this earth once again.

After three nights of irritating campers, we packed up and left for Luderitz. Driving there we chose the "good" road, which was the tarred road, taking us via Keetmanshoop. Just outside Keetmanshoop we visited the Quiver tree Forest and the Giants Playground. This is where magma pushed up to the surface but cooled before it broke through, and due to erosion over millions of years got exposed as blocks stacked on top of each other, as if put there by giant children. Onwards we drove through the restricted diamond fields to Luderitz, a very quaint town on the West coast of Namibia. Had Rock Lobster for dinner and left the next morning for South Africa.

Leaving Luderitz we stopped in Kollmanskop. A ghost town established in the early 1900's when there were diamonds lying around on the floor, and abandoned in the late 50's when everybody left and went prospecting on the orange river. We struck another oasis in Rosh Pinah on the way, where we had lunch under a thatch roof next to a pool in the dessert. We drove further along the Orange River to Springbok, where we stayed over at my aunts house, whom I have never met before in my life.

On the last day we drove home. We decided on route to stop in Lamberst Bay for lunch at the original open air sea food restaurant. Muisbosskerm. This was fantastic as we had a full Crayfish and mixed seafood and traditional stews for a really low price. From there we made the long journey back home.

All in all an eventful and glorious trip!!!