Saturday 24th November
As usual we were up early. Showered and then left to fill the diesel before we left Swakopmund. I found a coffee shop that looked great so persuaded Paul we needed another coffee. It was really civilised one of the highlights of Swakopmund, Kristinas. We decided to take the more direct route to Brandberg, via Spitzekoppe. This was a better road and more direct, but it still took us 5hours. We were very glad we hadn’t done the off road route we’d planned! White Lady Lodge in Brandberg, the camping is basic, but the lodge has two lovely pools, which we sat around twice and cooled off in the pool. We were there for two nights. First night we decided to cook for ourselves. We’d heard singing coming from the Lodge and at about 9pm out of the darkness came twenty people who asked if they could sing for us. It was lovely. They sang songs in the local dialect of the Damaraland language. Very clicky language. One of the ladies was carrying her 6month old baby, who didn’t murmur.
