Day 109- Spitzkoppe 20/1/13

Another A to B day, arriving late afternoon at Spitzkoppe - one of Namibia's highest peaks that rises out of the desert plain to nearly 6000'. Not terribly high but called "the Matterhorn of southern Africa" due to the difficulty in scaling its peak. We of course did not try to do so, but did some local walking and climbed another lower peak to watch a reasonable (but not brilliant) sunrise, with the landscape taking on different hues of orange and red.

After dinner, we sat back just to look at the heavens as the stars passed by overhead - with no electric light visible in any direction over the wide plain, it was as if we were seeing them as did the ancients. Definitely no St Albans sodium glare!