Categories: Holiday
Finally a complete summary of my Christmas holiday. I’m sorry it took so long. A combination of finishing the new Buchter in a hurry & living on Africa time I guess!
It started off with us hitch-hiking to Windhoek. With us I mean Anna, Paddy (one of the peace-corps volunteers here in Lüderitz), Lily (another peace-corps volunteer from somewhere else in Namibia) and me. After 6 hours of unsuccessful hitching, it was pretty obvious that no one was leaving for Lüderitz on this Sunday. So we took are only option left and rented a car from Avis.
After an 8 hour drive in which both Paddy as I took the wheel, we arrived in Windhoek. We checked into the backpackers and decided to go for a late night meal in Joe’s Beerhouse. On are way there we found a blocked of street, Anna & Paddy convinced me to drive into it - because “there is never police around in Namibia”. This particular street turned out to be the street with the presidential house on it and it didn’t take long for the police to pull us over. I convinced them I was a very dumb dutch tourist and really didn’t see the sign and after a nerve racking 10 minutes we where back on the road heading for Joe’s.
After 2 days in Windhoek it was time for us to pack our backs again and go on the Wilddog & Crazy kudu safari to sossusvlei. Here we enjoyed a lovely to days, with an amazing tour group and the amazing dunes of sossusvlei. We where joined by the Otjikondo Project Trust volunteers as well: Hazel & Rose and they brought a German volunteer Inken with them.
The tour ended back in Windhoek where we only spent one day this time, because we where heading up to Swakopmund. The epic centre of tourism in Namibia. Again we where joined by the Otjikondo girls and this time by another Peace-corps volunteer Eric as well. Swakop was a great stay with lots of partying, quadbiking, sandboarding and -for Hazel & Anna - even skydiving!
Anna & me headed up to Windhoek 2 days before the Otjikondo girls to go up to Etosha in one go. After an almost 24 hours during journey we finally arrived in Etosha only to see that it had rained so much that there was no wildlife what so ever. So after 2 days we decided to head back for Windhoek a day early and join - yet again - the Otjikondo girls.
From there we took the bus to cape town for the finale to weeks of our Holiday. Cape Town turned out to be an incredible place. With lots of partying, Christmas in a cave in table mountain, New Years on the streets of Cape Town and in a club called Chrome and finally Steve and I went scuba diving.
Steve is one of the Aranos Project Trust volunteers and he was accompanied by Harry, the other volunteer in Aranos (unfortunately Miles - who is in Aranos as well - couldn’t make it to Cape Town). After an amazing stay in CT we - the Namibia PT volunteers - decided to rent to cars and do a little road trip along the Garden Route. After a nice drive we arrived in Jeffrey’s Bay. This is a little surfvillage where we had both the beach as a nice apartment all to ourselves. Here we spent two days and then decided to head back a bit to Plet. In plet we spent our final night of the road trip & the next day we headed back to CT. On the way we visited an elephant sanctuary to finally see the elephants we had missed in Etosha. In CT we spent our last evening together and than it was time for Anna & me to head back to Lüderitz.
All together it was an amazing holiday which I would like to repeat any day!
Pictures will follow soon as I have to nick those of Anna since I was to lazy to take any - sorry (yet again).
Cheers,
Hidde
Tags: Cape Town, Christmas, Etosha, Holiday, Jeffreys Bay, New Year, Peace Corps, Plet, Project Trust, Sossusvlei, Windhoek
norayong Says:
Hello Hidde,
Remember me, Nora?? Diana sends you her love and is very proud of you. We all are. Keep up the good job!
With love from all in Singapore.
Diana, Luotao, my husband Kelvin, my daughters Cassandra and Dorothy, Jeffery and his wife Veronica and their son Ernest.
With love from Indonesia, Victor and his wife Joy.
With love from Brunei, Nonie.
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