Two days en route to the Namibian sand dunes

After having survived the Kalahari Desert for two days, we made our way to Ghanzi, a town in Botswana on the road towards Namibia where we were heading the following day. Dia had found a place just outside the town for us to spend the night as a stopover, a place called Thakadu Bush Camp. It was an interesting place about 3km drive down a sandy road, called a bush camp because they have their own large selection of game running around the camp including warthog, springbok and many meercats to name but a few. Joost kindly suggested to skip the rooftent for the night, which I didn't hesitate to accept! Luckily there was one room available, a simple but wonderful chalet, basically, it was a twin tented room with en-suite bathroom, but after camping in the Kalahari for two nights (which admittedly wasn't as bad as I thought it would be) it was a treat!

That night we decided to eat at the camp's restaurant, which was serving a selection of game on the specials menu. We decided to be interesting and all ordered something different from the menu and share with one another, with our dinner consisting of ostrich burger, eland kebab, warthog chops, kudu liver and beef steak. It was all served with crispy homemade fries and was nothing short of delicious! My favourite was the eland kebab, followed closely by the Botswanan beef. We all had a good night's sleep that night, and we were up at dawn the next morning for a quick breakfast and then left to make our way to the Namibian border.

It was another long day of driving with the border crossing into Namibia, but we had a nice surprise waiting for us at the end of it, and Dia deserves a big shout out for finding and booking us a campsite at the Lake Oanob Resort. It was beautiful! We had a spot at the edge of the lake with our own private steps down into the lake itself where we could go swimming. We had our own private BBQ area which we used for dinner that night and played guitar as the sun was setting. It made the long day's drive seem a long time ago and we all wished we could have stayed a little bit longer.

Once again we played a bit of guitar at night, and we have started filming a song here and there at various locations for the blog.

The only downside to our evening was the unfortunate coincidence that the campers at the site next to ours were a bunch of young kids celebrating the end of exams and were up making loads of noise all night. None of us got any sleep, which didn't set us up too well for the next day's drive. It was an unfortunate end to what started off as a really peaceful and beautiful setting. The management of the resort refunded us our fees, together with all the other campers in the vicinity who also suffered lack of sleep that night and complained. We did manage an early morning walk around the resort's hiking trail the next morning, and Joost and Maina squeezed in a quick dip in the lake before we headed off for the Namibian sand dunes.

Christelx