A wonderful departure from the Erongo mountains, passing by a couple of herds of giraffes and plenty of Impala this morning.

The first ‘rock climbing’ section of our African Expedition has come to a close and we’re moving on to see some of the other sights of Namibia (namely big sand dunes) before visiting the next climbing area.

As luck would have it, the gravel road back out to the tarmac (about 40km), had just been bulldozed, so it was a relatively smooth (albeit, dusty), exit from the Erongo Mountains. Our time here has been far beyond expectations and having had a week away from ‘the world’ has been incredible. 

Back on the tarmac we pretty much headed due south for a few hundred kilometres in a straight line.

As the views passed by, the only drama came when a police chase came at us on our side of the duel carriage way at 120km – red and blue lights flashing and a seemingly chasing a car that was swerving back and forth towards us. Luckily, the road was so straight that we could see it coming from a way off and could pull off the road before impact!

On the outskirts of Windhoek, we stopped at a supermarket to re-fill our food box back up. We were particularly pleased with our previous supplies shop, (and subsequent husbandry of rations), as we’d eaten well for 7 days and the box was now almost completely empty. This time we had the easier task of only needing 3 days worth of rations, but to steel ourselves before entering a shop full of people (and what felt like re-entering the world), we shared a pizza from a takeout joint on the edge of the mall. 

Feeling better from the food, we moved efficiently through the isles and returned to the truck to re-stock the fridge and food store.

We still had a few hours of daylight ahead of us, so rather than stop on the edge of Windhoek, as planned, we found another campsite further south near a town called Rehoboth. It’s about 5km off the main road, down a dirt track. There are five or six ‘pitches’ but we are the only people here which is great on one hand, and slightly spooky on the other. 

We had a solar shower before cooking dinner and pretty much crashed out soon after. The owner is a very friendly guy called Sam, who offered to light a ‘donkey’ (a fire under a tank of water), so we could have a hotter shower, but having passed so many people collecting and carrying huge bundles of wood on their heads, all day during the drive, we felt we didn’t want him to waste such a precious resource on us!