We left the beautiful dunes of Soususvlie and started our final 1500 Km drive down to Cape Town, fortunately we had found a few nice places to stop on the way down.

To break up the journey we also stopped at very nice hotel in Sehiem which readily provided us with LOTS of very cold beer and a lovely dinner for our 18^th anniversary of being together.  A great evening, but the goats, oryx, birds and dogs alarm calls would ideally have been a few hours later.

The drive south has to be done first hand to fully appreciate the climate, environment and scenery but the first famous tourist stop was Fish River Canyon. The canyon features a gigantic ravine, in total about 100 miles long, up to 27 km wide and in places almost 550 meters deep.  The best thing about the canyon was obviously the view and the worst thing was driving only a few metres from the long vertical drop to park up and soak up the view.

We stayed in a camp called Hobas, which was extremely busy for Namibia such is the pull of Fish River Canyon. Like a lot of camps, the baboons live in close proximity and often prosper from the slack camp skills of those who fail to lock away all their food pre and post cooking. We were both killing ourselves laughing at one cheeky male who ate 12 or more boiled potatoes from a French touring company in about 15 seconds.

Our next stop was the fabulous Amanzi River Camp on the Orange River which separates Namibia and South Africa.  Leaving the desert and arriving at the first flowing river we had seen for a month was amazing.  Huge areas of vineyards all along the river in vivid green was a real contrast to the month of white dusty roads and endless sand we had lived in.

Once we were settled in to our new camp we hired a canoe and enjoyed our pitch by the river bank. The water was very clean, just as well as the showers were river water and we spent two days chilling in the sun, paddling around in and on the river and watching an abundance of wildlife on our door step.  Each night we cook or brai on an open fire and had the mandatory chilled sun downers to round off each great day.

 In summary, Namibia is a sparce empty country that has spectacular scenery and a few major jewels every 500 Km for those happy to travel to discover.  We totally loved our stay, Etosha and Soususvlie were probably the highlights, but the whole country provided us with an adventure to remember for ever.  Another lasting memory will also be just how bad the drought can be in Africa and how the lack of water effects humans and animals alike.  Oh yes, we did not meet a single English person on our 19 day tour of Namibia, most Europeans are from Germany as Namibia was a former German colony