Arrived at Northam - Angasii Game Lodge

One is almost at a loss for words after such a trip. The rigour of each day is so foreign to the everyday, that returning to civilisation (although for just a few weeks) is a little difficult. I pine to return to places like the Richtersveld as they provide an opportunity to be quiet and completely enwrapped in nature.  The unusual beauty and remoteness of such places helps prioritise the mundane from the important or the necessary.  

We did a lot of 'up and go' type of camping in that we did not spend much time in one place. The longest we spent anywhere was three nights and so the experience of setting up and breaking down camp was maybe a little too often. The Oz tent was great but we will get a fly-sheet for it next time as it didn't have much insulation and in the big freeze it is an ice brick. 

We took a short cut in Namibia that was marked as a 4x4 route but in the end all of us took it as the time to travel the longer route would have made our arrival time far too late.  It turned out to be such a wonderful ride between canyon walls and our Tracks for Africa on the Garmin saved the day. Riding in the Richterveld was also a great challenge for Dennis and Lawrie who did not have a 4x4. Lawrie's combi was taken to the limit and Dennis' car saw road it had never seen before. There is nothing better than spending a day travelling those tracks and eventually coming to the Orange to pitch tent.