Another visit to the canyon, this time to see it in full light of day, rather than that of the setting sun. Fortunately, day hikes are strictly prohibited and you have to do a full five days and 90km or nothing, so we were all "forced" just to look and admire rather than tackle physically. The Cairo Four (Ian, Karina, Rose and me) had our photograph taken here before we start off together to do the Garden Route in South Africa.
So we eventually left the Al-Ais national park, with just a few ostriches and klipspringers to watch us pass by but then four mountain zebras (different stripes to their lowland cousins) to add a final line to our list of "have seens".
And then it was on to the Orange River, a long verdant line amongst the seeming total aridity of the surrounding desert, which forms the border with South Africa. There are vineyards here on the northern, Namibian side but the temporary workers accommodation for harvest time looked absolutely basic.
Our campsite here was up to the usual beautiful high standard - which was more than could be said for the performance by Liverpool FCC being shown live in the bar.
This was our final night in Namibia, so we celebrated with a bbq - great steaks.
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