Tuesday 19th November
We spent a very cold night at Klein Aus Vista, as soon as the sun went down last night we needed extra clothes. We needed to find the sleeping bags from under the mattress. We’d used them for extra padding, last night we needed them for warmth. We assume it was the height of the resort at 1,400m. We survived! This morning, up a little later at 5.50am, we had a cuppa and decided to take a walk before it got too warm. We walked for an hour and a half taking in a great view point over what I can only describe as a sand glacier! Check out the photo! We then caught up with emails at the main lodge over a coffee.
Our journey to Duwisib Castle took 4hours as we decided to take in a much blogged about route D707. It was off the main route and at least half of it was stunning. The silver grass contrasting with the amber dunes and road, quite beautiful. Again only a few on the roads, this time about 6 in four hours, so by Namibian standards very busy!
We arrived at Duwisib to find an eccentric castle, reminded me of Castle Drogo. Built by an eccentric German for his even more eccentric American wife, and filled with European furniture all transported here from Europe and eventually by ox cart. Some of the pieces are huge, can’t imagine how long they took to transport them in 1906. Now owned by Namibia, NWR.
Camp site a bit down at heel, so looking forward to our two day Lodge stay tomorrow.
