Day 113- Sesriem 24/1/13

A final goodbye to Swakopmund (which, being translated, means the anus of the s----y river) - a town that seems so different to anywhere else we have visited in Africa - as we start to move further south through the Namib-Naukluft national park (which is half as big again as Belgium). Namib is the desert and Naukluft the mountain range. Namib is considered to be the oldest desert in the world.

The landscape is pretty dry and desolate, with just the very occasional animal - a small group of ostriches, a single oryx and then a small herd of springboks, literally springing as they went. We passed the tropic of Capricorn so now we are no longer officially in the tropics, but we didn't notice any drop in temperature.

Lunch was at Solitaire, with an excellent "German" bakery so most of us felt forced to taste a variety of what they had on offer.

Arrived at camp in the middle of a mini sandstorm - we had to put stones in the tent or else it would have taken off.