This is Road Trip Number 3. Our plan is to enter Namibia from the South, travel North and then cross in Botswana at the Caprivi Strip, move Southeast across Botswana and back home to Marloth Park. 3000 kilometres, no reservations, no problem. It took us three days just to cross the northern protion of South Africa, having to push through the Pretoria/Johannesburg traffic skirt the southern edge of the Kalahari region and cross into Namibia at Onseepkans.
Monkey Poo
We made a stop at Augrabies National Park on Orange River in South Africa before crossing into Namibia. It was unbeleivably hot and dry. Just breathing the air made your mouth dry, but sitting on a granite outcrop above the Orange River Canyon and watching the sun set over the desert as a thunderstorm sweeps across the horizon is enough to make you forget about it for a short while. The campsite also had monkeys - cheeky vervets who subsist on the ill-gotten bounty of tourist coolers! One brave fellow ran between all four of us and grabbed our loaf bread, running up onto the tree branch above us. I grabbed James' sling-shot and pulled it back to fire when the nasty primate fired a shot of his own. He reached between his legs and launched his own insult, sprinkling monkey poo across me! Monkey 1, Scott 0 (my shot missed). After the laughter stopped (from family AND monkey) I scrubbed it off. Yummy. I'm sure there is a culture somewhere in the world that considers being sprinkled with monkey poo as a sign of good luck - so I'll consider this a good send off!
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