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Tuesday (Orange River Tour)
2008/11/04
2008/11/04
This was becoming our last day at the orange river. We woke at the area ‘Godzilla’ earliest in the morning. After having seen the Southern Cross and the zodiac sign of the scorpion last night, the sun was replacing them punctually at 6:30. About sleeping any longer was not a chance to think about. Not that our guides were pressing us but at the very moment the sun rose over the nearest mountain you felt like being in front of an extreme spotlight.
So we enjoyed our breakfast and were on the road before 8 AM. Using the chance of floating down the river as long as the sun and heat wasn’t killing us.
In the morning we were paddling only little. We let our boats floating, went swimming for about an hour and we playing a simplified version of canoe polo. Until we came to the river bay, were we met the a guy with a van on the Namibian (Northern) site. It came to our knowledge only after we
Wednesday (Orange River Tour)
2008/11/05
2008/11/05
It’s time to travel back. 800 kilometres were lying in front of us… again. Springbok and the N7 were our biggest steps forward today. But before the started, we needed to clean up. We got also a feedback form to fill in and then our road trip started. The trip was quite uninteresting. Of course, we saw loads of interesting areas and sites. However, they’d already been described earlier and will be described a little closer in week 9 … Trip along the west coast.
Waterfront at night
2008/11/05
2008/11/05
As I was back from the Orange River Tour I figured out that there shall be fireworks at the Waterfront. So I took my camera and started again. Actually I couldn’t find any fireworks but the nicely illuminated Waterfront was also worth the trip. Well here are some of the pictures:
met him, that he was preparing our transport back to the base camp. So we ended our river tour at noon, after having coming quite far in the days before.
Our trip back to the base camp happened mainly in Namibia and it gave as a chance to see some new culture and landscape, which again was quite different from what we were already used to from South Africa.
Here are some pictures (I took with my camcorder photo function): (More views you can find in the video.)
Back in the base camp we used the chance to get a proper shower, … even the reptiles we found in the shower first couldn’t prevent us from that. Afterwards we used the benefits of the base camp, like the bar and the billiard table. With the English men who accompanied us, I found some proper players in my league.
The last evening we spent in the base camp, enjoying the time under the open sky. One last time with a great starlight, undisturbed by any kind of electrical light, at the bonfire with a real South African braai.
The trip was a great experience but extremely exhausting and so we went to bed early. (Six hours of sleep per night are not enough if you get such a lot of fresh air.)