my travels in pixels

It's quite a long drive from Epupa Falls down to Etosha National Park. We stopped off at the supermarket and service station in Opuwo to fill up the car and our fridge. Then as we were coming south there was a quarantine gate for foot and mouth disease. Did we have any meat, again? yes because we had just filled up at the supermarket as there were no other shops between here and our next destination. Damn it. She said we could cook it then and there, but why would we want to do that when we are trying to get to our next destination. We gave them a few sacrificial items and then cooked up what was left when we got to our next stop, what is a 100kms in the middle of a desert really? It's what the locals do. I thought we had missed our turn off, so we went back only to find that the route google had given me had a locked gate on it. It's so annoying when you waste time like that. It turned out that Tom Tom was correct and we ended up having to go further south to then...

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...