fish 'n chips out the etosha pan

If there are no trees, no forest, and no-one to see them fall, then what? Etosha panning.

Namibia: vast, barren and beautiful.
No-ones land.
So it came as no surprise that as soon as we crossed the border, we found ourselves in wide, open spaces with no one around. Just us on a dirt road driving to nowhere. We had arrived...

drama damara to sea

stars eyes for start skies

Our journey carried on over Grootberg pass on the C40 to Twyfelfontein. We eventually found the petrified forest, after passing several fakes that promised to be equally petrifying. Despite being millions of years old, it is hard to believe or even see that these ancient trees are made of rock. We stayed at Aba Huab camp, right on the river bed. Unfortunately, we didn't see any desert elephant, but met another scorpion which came to sniff out our pasta dinner. Another nights sleep under starry skies!

namib desert & the south

sossus, we're ready

Our next destination was Sesriem, to see the famous dunes early the next morning. We left Homeb after a quick stroll, but got distracted at zebra pan on our way back to the C19. The pan was full of big herds of gemsbok, zebra (with just day old calves), springbok and wild horses, all out in the open with no fences. Naturally we had to watch so by the time we arrived at the Kuiseb canyon it was already lunchtime.