My desk officer, John, came to visit Namibia a couple of weekends ago. He travelled down to Windhoek, picked me up, and we went down to see the Project Trust volunteers who live in Luderitz. The journey down there is absolutely incredible, a five hour drive seeing mountains, massive plains that stretch into the horizon, tiny secluded farms, and of course, wildlife!
On the journey down we saw ostrige, kudu, oryx and wild horses - which are apparently the symbol of freedom. Very appropriate since they're descended from horses that either escaped from farms or were left behind when their owners moved! The ride is truly incredible, probably one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. The pictures are of a large river on the way down. Normally it's completely dry, and on the way back to Tses two days later the water was almost completely gone! Shows just how much it has rained here lately!
Unfortunately I don't have any photos of this time in Luderitz since all photos were taken on John's iPhone! It was a nice weekend, catching up with the Luderitz girls and meeting a returned volunteer from last year who has returned to live with her boyfriend. It was a really good weekend though, even though John didn't actually tell the Luderitz girls that we were coming! It was only when we had parked outside their building that he decided to share this small nugget of information with me. Oh well, I suppose that's just typical of Namibia :)
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