We are currently in Swakopmund, Namibia.
We spent December 30 traveling to Livingstone and going on top of the falls again.
The water level was much higher than it was six weeks ago, and a couple people in our group had a close call. They lost their footing and started to get swept down toward the falls (there were plenty of barriers in their path before they would have gone over), but luckily the guides arrested their progress. It took a good three hours to get to the Devil’s Pool, and our feet were wrecked by then. Only Nick, Audrey and Suzy went into the pool. Getting to it involved swimming across a couple strong currents a little too close to the edge for comfort. When we finally got there it was much scarier than six weeks ago. We were told that we were pretty much at the end of when it is possible to do this. It was an exciting first full day in Africa for Suzy.
The next day we took the Intercape bus to Windhoek, Namibia. It took about 21 hours, which was a little longer than planned, because of an accident that blocked the road. We were impressed with Windhoek. It felt closer to Cape Town than to Lusaka. After picking up the rental car and eating our first real meal in a day, we stocked up at the grocery store and drove to Sesriem, gateway to Sossussvlei and some amazing sand dunes. Most of it is on gravel roads and we ran into some heavy rains in the mountains, delaying us a bit. Luckily we arrived in time to secure our campsite and enjoy a spectacular sunset. On New Years Day we spent time on the dunes.
Today, we got a flat tire in the middle of the desert, but we still made it to Walvis Bay and then Swakopmund. Pictures of these hopefully in the next blog.
1 comments:
The picture and video of you swimming on top of Victoria Falls is scary. But not as scary as pictures in today's paper (1/2/2010) of Polar Bears swimming at Jones Beach.
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