We had joined a tour that was headed to the remote area of Namib- Naukluft National park. Due to its remote location, an unguided tour would have been impossible.
Along the hundreds of kilometers of dirt roads, we bounced along in our 4x4, passing some of the most desolate and sparsely populated areas I have ever seen.
We spent the trek with new friends: Hans, the tall Dutchman; Sven, the red-lipped German; Dan, the witty Englishman; Teddy, the only female and a gaggle of Asians.
We all passed 2 nights beneath the most spectacular night's sky I have ever witnessed. The daywas mostly dedicated to travelling to and from what we had come to see: the red dunes of Sossusvlei.
We had even climbed the 1000-foot Dune 45 at 6:00 am in the morning to watch the sun rise and illuminate the desert. It was amazing to see the dunes change colour as the sun rose in the sky. We walked over peaks where our presence would be erased in an instant by the ever-present winds.
We walked 5km through the dunes and among trees that have been dead for hundreds of years, in an area called Deadvlei.
The scorching-hot days and the near-freezing nights were more than worth the immaculate landscapes that nature had allowed us to witness.
We finished our tour of Namibia with dinner at Joe's Beerhaus in Windhoek, surrounded by new friends and a new perspective on a country we had known so little about.
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