Some catch up posts...

Hi again! Sorry for the delay between posts, we've had no internet access for the past few days while travelling around Etosha National Park, in the north of Namibia. Here are some of the posts we wrote along the way, but couldn't put up until now...

13^thMay – Windhoek - Starting our trip off in style!

Before I left, knowing very little about Namibia , I imagined that flying in might be like landing in the middle of the desert! Well, as it turned out that wasn't far wrong. We looked out the plane window as we approached Windhoek airport and all we could see was endless flat brown plains dotted with little shrubs. It was quite beautiful actually, very different from any place I've ever been before.

We picked up our hire car at the airport and made our way to Val and Ian's place for our first night. Turns out the airport is quite a distance from the city itself as it's the only substantial area of flat land around. So as we drove in we started to see houses and buildings, and realised there was a city here after all! Val and Ian's place is just beautiful, no doubt it'll be the nicest place we stay on our whole trip. It's roughing it camping after this!

We were taken out to dinner to a place called Joe's, and met up with some of the other Cape Town to Cairenes, the Namibii mercedes crew! Joe's was a great place, lots of fun and full of character. Jane and I ate Ostrich, Oryx and Springbok – delicious! (Jane says just getting a little taste for what we'll be seeing later) Really fun night, then back home to crash before our big day driving to Etosha.

x Anna

Argent and Xena, Val and Ian's friendly Swiss Shepherds. The only African animals we've taken photos of so far have been dogs!