Friday, January 21, 2005

last days of Nam

well Cat should be safley back in the UK by now, mean while i have gone back to the namibian wilderness. This time with Nomad overlanding tours. the first step was to get a bus to swakopmund which should in theory be quite easy, and in deed it was untill we got to a police cheekpoint and it turned out that the bus driver didn't have a driving licence and so he was propmtly aressted leaving his 14 passangers stranded at a police station uin the middle of the dessert. The only solution it seemed would be to hitch luckilly i got a lift with a lorry driver, un lukilly he had never been to namibia before and relied on me to navigate, lukkily i got us there.
so then i joined the tour that will end up getting me to VIc falls by the end of january, and take in the highlights of northern namibia including a return visit to Etosha NP, however it was just as well i had gone up there with cat as in the mean time the rains had came meaning that there was no need for most of the animals to come out of hiding, also i had managed to break my camera, and the truck broke down so it wasn't to much of a sucessfull trip the rest of the time the tour is good, it seems to be dominated by koreans don't quite know why but it is quite intersting any way one of them (mr Kim) is writing a book so hopfully my fame should reach korea in some small way. i am of to the okavango delta tommorrow, which i am really looking forward to.
Currently i am in a town called Rundu Right on the angolan border. on the way here we passed an animal desease control point, which is part of a fence accross the entirety of northern namibia, this line (known as the red line) apparently divides the first and the third world and the change was both noticable and imeadiate gone was the ranch style farms in where the tradititional style huts,another noticable change is that there are acctually people up here as well.
any how i'm off for a swim accross to angola without my passport wish me luck.

1 Comments:

Blogger Cat said...

Hi Doug,

Got back safe and sound. Janice and Maurice were really sweet and took me in for the day and got me to the airport at an ungodly hour in the morning. Will try and drop the boxes off soon but have to go to Scotland this weekend (am going to be a Godmother!!)Am now looking for where I can go next (it's really cold back here - I wouldn't recommend it). Did things look really different after the rains came? Photos turned out pretty good - esp. the zebras at the puddle and both the sand dunes places. Will find out course info and let you know. Enjoy and say hello to Mr Kim! x

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