This part of the trip saw us on the final gravel road as we start to head towards the civilisation of the Namibian capital, Windhoek. Other than the one day, when driving from Vingerklip to Uis, the non-sealed gravel roads have been great fun to drive on - almost like driving on slush at times with the car getting quite light as it skitted around a bit on the dusty surface. You certainly needed to keep concentration up, but it was a lot less boring than driving a...

The drive across from Walvis Bay to the 'Luxury Tented' Moon Mountain Lodge at Sesriem was a fairly easy 230km. Most was on an gravel road but it was possible to keep to 80-100kph for most of the trip - much better than some of our previous Namibian gravel road experience on this trip! On this drive we passed through the Kuiseb Pass, which was closed two/three days previously due to heavy rain, and we also crossed the Tropic of Capricorn. After 200km we arrived a...

After enjoying the remoteness of Etosha National Park, Vingerklip and the desert driving arriving into Swakopmund felt like somewhere rather big and busy. The sat-nav took us straight to our self catering apartment, Chala-Kigi, just out of the central area of Swakopmund.The apartment was plenty big enough for us with separate sleeping and living areas and access to a garden too. We decided to spend the first evening in the apartment having visited the local Shopr...

On arrival at Uis the 'one horse' certainly seemed to have departed the town . . . Our accomodation, Petra's Gastehaus, was a tad dated but clean and fortunately the local critters were not able to gain access to the room. Clearly were not going to have a rip roaring night in Uis as the only restaurant open in town was at the Brandberg camping site. The food was OK, but certainly not gourmet, and pretty good value and the beer was ice cold. We did however have a ...

Namibia is huge and when putting together a trip there has to be a balance between distance to travel and sights that need to be seen. We originally thought we could possibly be able to make it from Etosha to the coast in one day if we stuck to main roads - in the end we need two nights accommodation in order to make it to Swakopmund and take in a few of the sights en-route. Our first stop was at Outjo, about 120km from Okakuejo in Etosha and this gave us the cha...