In Swakopmund

We are now a week into the trip!
The weather is finally looking up. It was pretty wet in cape town, and further up into the Namib desert pretty warm, high 20's, but in the evening it is absoultely freezing! I've been layered up to the max, but last night was pretty good. The camp sites have all been really good so far - warm water and some even have had swimming pools. The driving isn't too bad, max of like 5 hours a day, so they're typically action-packed, but the roads can be pretty bumpy! we have lots of space in the truck, luckily, because there's space for 29, and we're only with 16. We're losing 6 people tomorrow so for the next 2 weeks up to Victoria Falls we'll only be with 10.

Africa is beautfiul. I've seen many gorgeous sunsets, and as much as they look the same after a while i still love to watch. I was going to put some pictures up but i can't use the USB cable here! It's not as cheap as SE Asia or S America, but thepeople are all very friendly. The cook is amzing, so i might actually gain weight on the trip! We've had some amazing lasagna ad then yesterday we had kudu!

We've been pretty busy so far. I went for a canoeing trip on Orange River, which was beautiful. Then later we had a day off but we climed about 100m to catch the sunset. Then yesterday we went on a walk in the Sossusvlei in Namibia, which is all desert and dunes. Going to go quadbiking in the desert on sunday. We're here for another 2 days, so it's a nice bed and some relax time for me!
The wildlife is stunning, opbviously! Lots of springbok and ostrich along the road,a nd we also saw a few oryx.

The people in the group are really cooL! There's a group of 6 americans who are doing a semester in cape town, and they're leaving us tomorrow. The rest of us get along really well, there's a few australians and some brits mainly. We're only just getting to know each other better so from now on many more drinking parties and fun nights a coming!

This has now become a very long post, and i'm kind of sickly (stuffy nose, sore throat) so that's all for now!
Lots of love.

xxx

Cape Town to Springbok

So this is the first time i can get internet. There was a big stormin CApe Town on saturday evening so everything was down.
The journey into S. Africa was good, though i had an hour's delay with BA because of damage to the luggage compartment.
Cape Town is pretty cool, it really doesn't feel like AFrica. It's veery modern and it has lotsof shops. They're obsessed with surf clothes! I guess it makes sense it being on the coast and all. There's a waterfront with lots of malls and shops lik ethe body shop, and nando's everywhere. I went there with this random maltese/italianh couple i met on the street, they were really nice! It was very cold though and lots of rain. Then i met the people in my group, who're pretty cool. IT's s small group, 16 of us, from all over, UK, oz, kiwis, spain.
We left on sunday morning and the highlight may have been seeing babboons cross the road, randomly! Pretty cool, for someone like me not used to that. I've also seen some lone impalas grazing.
We got to the first camp site in the cold and rain, and did some wine tasting there! Was v. nice, fromthe birdlife co-op, the 3rd biggest producer inteh s. hemisphere apparently. Bought some rooibos-infused vermouth, because they don't export it.
Didn't get much sleep last night because the cook got slightly drunk and fell off a ledge hurting himself badly. He's currently in hospital, but he gave us a good fright because he was asking for help, opening up tents and we thought he was a randombegger!
Oh well, am now off closer to orange river to do some canoeing tomorrow.
Will be in swakopmund in about 5 days, will report back then!