Soussusvlei  -  Travel day to Windhoek

The phone rings at 5:30am with our wakeup call and I think, oh no, it’s our last day in Soussusvlei and our last full day of holiday in Namibia and Africa. There’s no time to dwell on it though, as this morning we have our sunrise balloon flight over Soussusvlei, and we have to get moving and hussle down to the main lodge.

At the main lodge they have coffee and breakfast snacks ready for us and the driver from Balloon Safaris is waiting for us. We have a few minutes before we leave so we enjoy our breakfast before heading out to the van and the trip to the launch site. We are both very excited about this morning’s activity, I’ve only flown once before many years ago in the Napa Valley and this is Kelly’s first flight.

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Soussusvlei - Day 2

After a bit of a fitful sleep, waking up at odd hours to check the time on the iphone to make sure I don’t miss the wakeup call, hmm how dumb is that! Kelly and I are up and out looking at the stars at 5:15am when the phone rings. We quickly get dressed, grab all our gear, head for reception and a morning cup of coffee before we set out for our visit to the Dunes at Soussusvlei.

Early morning crowd at the Namib-Naukluft National Park gates

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Soussusvlei - Day 1

This is a bit of a lost day as my cold/infection has really laid me out. So we are going to call a rest day with no activities planned, just sit and read and enjoy the peace and beauty of the desert. I’ll try to get a bit of sleep and see if I can shake it a bit.

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Swokapmund – Soussusvlei Desert Lodge

Once again we are going on the road and today’s a travelling day between Swakopmund and our next and final destination the Soussuvlei Desert Lodge at Soussuvlei. To get to the lodge we will be travelling a distance of about 350 kilometres, with all but 37 kilometres of it gravel. For us we manage a pretty early get away, we’ve packed the car, had breakfast, gassed up, checked the tire pressures and it’s only 9am! This is almost a record.

Alas my cold has developed into something more intense and it feels very much like a bronchial infection. I’m going to drive for the first hour and a half, take some cold tablets, and then let Kelly take over while the tablets knock me out.

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