my travels in pixels

Epupa from further down the river Epupa Falls Travelling north towards Angola, the temperature started getting warmer and more humid. Epupa is a fair way north which means a very long drive on dirt. There are traditional tribes people up here, the Himba, that smear red dirt on their skin and through their hair - well, the women do anyway. Like many cultures, the men dress the same as the rest of the world. I should have come back here with my good camera and tripod, this is just 5 mins walk down the road Our campsite was part of a resort right on the Epupa River and on the other side of the river is the country of Angola. While the spray from the waterfall is visible from our campsite, you need to walk about fives minutes down the road to see the falls. To get the photograph of the falls that I was looking for, we needed to go further afield and try and find a track in through the trees and rocks. It wasn't easy as the tracks petered out quite quickly and you had to...

Walvis Baai  Walvis Baai/Bay (still pronounced Walfish Bay from a previous name) is on the coast. This a major town by Namibian standards and while the Germans have influenced most places, the British left their mark here. The road out of Sossusvlei was awful for the first few hundred kilometres with lots of corrugations. I’m sure our car has many more rattles than when it started.  We stayed in the campground of a hotel. We were the first ones there so had our pick of the campsites and choose a paved one close to the very modern and clean ablutions block. We did some shopping and headed down to the waterfront to photograph the flamingos. The sun was shining straight at us which ruins your photos. We had a scenic flight booked for the following afternoon, so had time to go back in the morning.  The flamingos love it here as their favourite pink algae is in the water. You can find them all along the waterfront which wasn't too far from where...

Sossusvlei National Park Road signs out in the desert We left Luderitz after our walking tour, giving ourselves a half day start. Even though we had paid for the night we didn’t see the point in staying any longer. Google gives you approximate times but you don’t really know how long it will take until you drive it as it all depends when the road was last graded. Lindsay said he hadn’t expected so many of the roads to be gravel. I knew they were and had told him, but he obviously wasn’t listening. We couldn’t get reception in town but we could get it about 20kms out of town. We had to stop as I had some important emails to attend to. Life goes on. Our campsite at Betta We had no idea where we would stay that night. We could see a town called Betta about 2/3 of the way to our next destination but Tom Tom couldn’t find it and we had no data reception to ask Google when we tried. We went passed a sign with the name of a camp they said was 50kms up the road so that is whe...