Namibia with love!!

Hey all! Namibia was awesome and we had loads of fun there. We left early in the morning and arrived 9 hours later over the boarder at Ai-Ais in The Fish River Canyon (2nd to The Grand Canyon in size). Ai-Ais is a resort that has a natural hot spring which is really hot (68 degrees celius) and they have to cool down the water before they pump it into the pools. We only stayed there one night but it was all worth it.

After heading out the next moring we explored the canyon and then drove to Luderitz which lies in deep within the Namib Desert. Luderitz is famous for the ghost town it has called Kolmannskuppe. This town statrted when diamonds were discovered in the area, after larger diamonds were found further south everyone left and deserted the town leaving it to the desert and harsh wind. It has since been engulfed by the sand and become half desert/half town...very freaky!!! After that amazing experience we finally left for Windhoek to stay with Jessica's interesting Uncle Peter.

Windhoek is the capital city in Namibia and just like a average size city in SA, pretty much. Peter owns a very upper class guest house in Windhoek and Jess's whole fmaily met up there for Christmas which was nice.

During our stay there I was able to go with them to the Spitzkopper Mountains about 3 hours from Windhoek. That is the picture you see above at sunset. There grandmother passed away so they scattered her ashes over the mountain from a light aircraft. We then camped out there the night and had a awesome time.

After all that we ended our trip by heading to Etosha National Park and went game viewing. We saw rhino, elephant, lion, gemsbok, zebra, wildebees, springbok (mmm...biltong [SA beef jerky]) amongst other animals. Etosha is so full of game its unbelievable.

Our trip was truly awesome and we will never forget it.

We hope that all of you wil get your butts down her to South Africa and share in some of these experiences.

Below is a typical Namibian sunset...beautiful!!!