8 November 2013
For many of us this day was the first close desert encounter. We got up at 4:45 am in order to make it to a big dune before sunrise. The night had been cold and when we started we were still wearing our long stuff. After an exhausting 30 minutes walk up the sandy giant we were rewarded with a nice view over the area – desert! Red sand dunes everywhere, occasional springboks and a chilled coyote that just had an early day’s sleep in the sand.
It was great fun to just ROLL down from the top. After that no one stayed without having sand everywhere: Purse, underpants, ears … Fortunately we decided to spend some more money to have a 4×4 truck driving us to yet another dune. There you really had the feeling of being in dry Africa. Nothing but endless pseudo-mountains, fluttering air, bones of dead animals and the exhaustion of finding your way through endless hills of sand in order to make it to the king of all dunes. We started at 8am for this but when we arrived on the top an hour later it was already unbelievable hot. Running down like 200 meters through the sand we found our way back crossing a big field of … hard to describe! It looked like dried pieces of sand that had gone totally white. And in the midst of it all: Dead but nonetheless still standing trees. The afternoon was really chilled: Fun at the pool, “sleeping” in the “shadow” of the few trees on our campsite and so on. After a short visit to a small but very interesting canyon in the middle of nowhere we enjoyed community at the fire – A great day!
stellenboschtrip 
Hallo, Ihr alle – Ihr Namibiafahrenden! Grüße aus dem nicht heißen, sondern herbstlichen Deutschland. Ich lese sehr interessiert eure Berichte und versuche mir das Leben in “Nirgendwo” vorzustellen. Sanddünen, Knochen, Kälte, Hitze – das ist eine ganz besondere Erfahrung. Wie toll, dass Ihr alle das erleben dürft! Ich bin gespannt, wie es weitergeht. Viele Grüße, besonders viele an Tobias!
Ulrike Kirschstein