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We arrived safely in Windhoek, where we picked up the 4×4 which would be our home for the next two weeks. Before heading off, we had a room (the largest room) in Jordani BnB, our very comfortable first accommodation, site of our first casualty: halfway through our trip through Namibia, we realise we\u2019ve forgotten our laundry line there\u2026<\/p>\n

Walking around the street in the morning, we get our first impressions of Windhoek \u2013 a very dry and low-built city. We were in a calm residential area and noticed that the houses were all well surrounded, with walls and barbed wire fencing.<\/p>\n

After breakfast, we get on the road (driving on the left!). Leaving Windhoek, the road is tarred and smooth and we make good progress.<\/p>\n

After a short shopping stop in Rehoboth (including sandwichhes and drinks for the \u2018parking guards\u2019), we reach the start of the gravel road. A couple of hours on the bumpy road allow us to reach the Naukluft camp (13 km off the main road) relatively early. Unfortunately, when trying to check in, we discover we don\u2019t have a booking there. Back on the road, two bumpy hours later, we reach Sesriem, where our booking actually<\/i> is. <\/span><\/p>\n

As we reached the camp shortly before sunset, we were too late to make it up to the dune for the view. We headed back to the tent to test our hand getting our tent up and, exhausted, crash into bed.<\/p>\n

Around 2 AM, we\u2019re woken up by the wind, billowing outside and (as we felt it) threatening to knock our tent down. We stay awake a couple of hours, <\/span>listening to music and hoping in vain that the wind will die down. Exhausted by the night, we decide to push off our sunrise visit to the dunes, and extend our stay by a night. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, after a few hours light rest, we head off in direction of Deadvlei (60 km from Sesriem), where we start our way up Big Daddy (dune 69). Having arrived too late, with the increasing heat and not enough water, we make our way back down shortly before we reach the top. We cross Deadvlei and make our way back to the camp. <\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We arrived safely in Windhoek, where we picked up the 4×4 which would be our home for the next two weeks.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nUt velit mauris, egestas sed, gravida nec, ornare ut, mi. Aenean ut orci vel massa suscipit pulvinar. Nulla sollicitudin. Fusce varius, ligula non tempus aliquam, nunc turpis ullamcorper nibh, in tempus sapien eros vitae ligula. Pellentesque rhoncus nunc et augue. Integer id felis. Curabitur aliquet pellentesque diam. Integer quis metus vitae elit lobortis egestas. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi vel erat non mauris convallis vehicula. Nulla et sapien. Integer tortor tellus, aliquam faucibus, convallis id, congue eu, quam. Mauris ullamcorper felis vitae erat. Proin feugiat, augue non elementum posuere, metus purus iaculis lectus, et tristique ligula justo vitae magna.\n\n \n\n\"\"\n\n \n\nAliquam convallis sollicitudin purus. Praesent aliquam, enim at fermentum mollis, ligula massa adipiscing nisl, ac euismod nibh nisl eu lectus. Fusce vulputate sem at sapien. Vivamus leo. Aliquam euismod libero eu enim. Nulla nec felis sed leo placerat imperdiet. Aenean suscipit nulla in justo. Suspendisse cursus rutrum augue. Nulla tincidunt tincidunt mi. Curabitur iaculis, lorem vel rhoncus faucibus, felis magna fermentum augue, et ultricies lacus lorem varius purus. Curabitur eu amet.\n\n ","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,16,15],"class_list":["post-28579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-namibia","tag-namibia","tag-sesriem","tag-windhoek"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28579"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29525,"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28579\/revisions\/29525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kastoof-ontour.world\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}