Month: April 2025

Hello everyone – while the blog is a few days delayed, tonight is our last night in Namibia and we are about to re-enter the Travel Vortex for the next…

Despite last night’s scorpion debacle, everyone seemed to get a reasonable night’s sleep. A later departure this morning, as we’ve decided to make this solely a travel / relaxing day….

We’ve got a long drive ahead of us today – heading north along the highway to the seal colony at Cape Cross, then inland to visit Twyfelfontein in Damaraland. We…

Another relaxed start to the day, with a 7 am breakfast at Organic Stay Guesthouse: It’s a continental breakfast with a few hot options, which works well for us –…

Six on the clock, twice in three days. We’re getting spoiled by these later mornings. It was cold last night at Dead Valley Lodge in Sossusvlei – we didn’t put…

5 am comes earlier than any of us hoped. But this should be our last extra-early morning for a while, so we do our best to power through. There has…