Wednesday 25th August - Vingerklip to Etosha Distance:405km Another early start and we make our way due north towards one of the world's largest and most spectacular Nature Parks, The Etosha National Park. This is yet another of the highlights in Namibia. Its centre is dominated by the vast Etosha Pan, an enormous dried up lake, now a vaguely greenish-white salt pan which from a distance looks like the sea. We reached our accommodation at Mokuti Lodge ...

Tuesday 24th August - Swakopmund to Vingerklip Distance: 310km After our fun day off yesterday go kart racing and quad biking in the sand dunes (it's a hard life!) we start today by following the coastal road north towards Henties Bay passing through terrain that can only be described as barren! At Henties Bay we leave the Atlantic and turn inland. Over the horizon in front of us is the Brandberg Massif that covers an area of approximately 650 km⊃2;, on a...

Some YouTube clips from Charley (check me out as an extra 1min 57seconds in!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuXvooOqTFY Crossing over into Namibia! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OkxWVjij7g&feature=channel

Monday 23rd August - Swakopmund Our well earned day off! It's Charley's birthday. We chose to go off for some Go Kart racing and guess what? Ross won!! Then off for some quad biking in the Swakopmund sand dunes which was absolutely amazing! This area was used to film parts of Tomb Raider and for the 1965 version film of Flight of the Phoenix. For dinner we went to the restaurant situated in the Swakopmund Casino, a beautiful old colonial style building with ...

Sunday 22nd August - Namib Naukluft Reserve to Swakopmund Distance: 305km Destination............Namibia's premier beach resort, Swakopmund! We continue on the track from the previous day just outside the border of the nature reserve. On to the coast passing by Namibia's highest sand dune, "Dune 7", with a short detour to Walvis Bay to admire the attractive townhouses painted in all the colours of the rainbow! Swakopmund has been described as ...