Namibia - The Desert

I joined up with my tour safely last week and we've been traveling overland. I'm in Swakopmund, Namibia. There's a lot of Dutch people on my tour, three Germans, two people from Ireland, and two guys from Korea. The Korean guys and I get along fairly well. One is a photographers and the other guy produces music videos.

So far we've gone canoeing down the Orange River and hiked giant sand dunes in Namibia. The sand dunes were amazing. They were orangish red in color and really stood out against the blue sky. We climbed Dune 45 which is 180 meters high and then we did a walk where we learned about the Bushman. The Bushman lived in Southern Africa and snuck up on animals by hiding behind bushes. If there wasn't a bush in the area they would carry one in and hide behind it. The Bushman used to kill a lot of settlers here becasue the settlers were encroaching on their land.

Yesterday, we arrived here in Swakopmund and we did some quadbiking. This is basically 4-wheelers that you drive off-road. We took them all over the dunes. It was a lot of funbecause it was so wide open. We'd go up and down all over the place. One of Koreans caught the most air about 3 feet. However, he was more surprised that he did it then anything else and yelled like crazy.

We're off to a remote camp site today where there is no electricity and running water. Should be a good time. I'm not sure when I will have internet access next so I might not post for another week or so.