Namibia
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So we’ve been consistently on the road for the last couple days and we’re now settled in Cape Town. I’ll give a brief account of what happened in the past two days.
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So New Year’s was a blast. We had a slow evening. We went to the shopping mall and bought smoked game, potatoes, vegetables and spices, went back to the room and cooked a New Year’s feast for dinner. We had a kitchen area in our room which we used–and abused. When we were done there…
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When I had finished writing the last update Ioana and I left the internet cafe and Codrin was gone. He said he was going to the shop next door but he wasn’t there, so we wandered around a bit looking for him and then went off to the cafe for another drink. It turns out Codrin…
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Our second night in Walvis Bay we ate at Raft, the same restaurant on the bay we had eaten at the night before. We were served by the same waitress, Claire, and petted the same Norwegian Ridgeback, Motley, who moseys around the restaurant with a card on his neck telling patrons not to feed him.…
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We spent our last day in Windhoek not doing much. We slept in til 9 and then planned out our last couple days. The original plan was to do another safari from Windhoek, but it turns out that a lot of the desert is better seen from Walvis Bay, the first European trading town on the west coast (about an hour…
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At noon our bus left Livingstone, Zambia and arrived on Christmas in Windhoek, 19 hours later. The journey was long, and more importantly, cold. We were originally ecstatic about an “air conditioned” coach but when the temperature in the Namib desert dropped and the rain started, the bus became so cold I had to pull out the…
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