Wednesday 20th November
Our camp last night was near to the Duwisib Castle and they have a small restaurant, so we decided to breakfast there this morning. Full English but the coffee was instant.
On the road at 9.00. Drove the scenic route to Sesriem through the Namib Rand Nature Reserve. This borders the Namib/Naukluft National Park where Dunes start. We dropped into Sesriem to check out permits for Sossusvlei and for later on an off road trip towards Swakopmund. It was baking hot there, and I think it made our mind up that we must start very early tomorrow morning in order to be able to climb the dunes in the coolest part of the day. So it’s packed breakfast about 6 am and off to the dunes. We then drove another 50km to where we are staying for two nights, Moon Mountain Lodge. This is a canvas camp, huge rooms with en-suite all canvas and built on stilts. It looks over a huge plain towards the dunes. We are high with lovely views. Our room has its own plunge pool on the terrace. Quite different to last night! We had a beer in the bar and a dip in the pool. We were reading and the wind started to blow. It’s very fierce and you wonder how the canvas copes with it. I went out to get my towel on the terrace and one of the chairs and both our towels were in the plunge pool! Oops. Paul has just gone down to reception to ask for replacements.
We have dinner, bed and breakfast, so lap of luxury tonight. A girl has just arrived with two bath mats! Hopefully she’ll be back soon with bath towels.
