First trip to the sand dunes!

So one evening Sachi took us on our first trip to the Sand dunes. Walking out of the school compound we turned left and followed a dusty road for about 10-15 minutes. Everything around us was completely flat (which is basically just the normal terrain in this area) apart of course, from the one mountain - whose name I once again cannot remember.




Sachi told us one day that all the guidebooks etc. say that this mountain is an extinct volcano (which is kinda understandable really because to be blunt, it does look like it was once a volcano). But apparently it is simply a mountain caused by the tectonic movement millions of years ago - another interesting bit of trivia that we're picking up about Namibia!



So the five us of (Anne and Ruben came along too) walked down the dusty road as Sachi pointed out the local river (a tiny stream), a water pump and the local cemetery. She also seemed to have a moment of madness, standing pointing at a piece of empty land repeating 'where's the house gone?' over and over again. It was finally established that there used to be a house on that spot, and that the man who lived there used to wave to Sachi as she ran past. But now all that remains is the foundations. The house has quite literally disappeared. We tried to come up with some helpful suggestions to what had happened to the house - they included the possibility that it had been stolen by aliens, that a tornado had swept it up and taken it to Kansas, or that the owner had simply moved it somewhere else.

Finally we reached the spot, and so we sat, chatting and drinking as we watched the sun drift behind the mountain - once again the Namibian sunsets proved themselves to be incredible! And much to my relief we didn't see any snakes, baboons or tarantulas - yay!

We now have hatched a plan - we want to try to camp out one night in the sand dunes! Although we don't have a tent which is kinda essential to keep the potential dangerous animals at bay - I guess we'll just have to wait and see whether it'll happen!