Happy!

It was a really awesome bush camp in the middle of nowhere. The sunset made the clouds go funny.

Awesome Clouds

The thrown- overlooking the Hippos

The Throne

Poop-a-Falls- A toilet with a view and a very long long-drop

Poop a falls

The Holiday Bathroom- come with in built sunglasses

Holiday shower- complete with in-built sunglasses

and my favourite... The bath with the view

Having a bath hippo watching

The view from my bath tub

The other fun thing about Etosha is that it has a massive salt pan in the middle of it. This means you can mess around with the perspective on your camera and take pictures such as...

Love hunters cider

Me eating Meg

Tampon boxercize

In the evenings we stayed in a camp in the park. The camp had a flod-lit watering hole next to it so we took down a few ciders, midnight snacks and sleeping bags and sat out under the stars all night watching animals come into feed. At about 3.30 a female white rhino and her baby came in to drink. They stayed with us for a couple of hours. It was awesome to watch them being completely natural. You could see the calf being naughty, getting told off by its mum and then being told to lay down and go to sleeep.

Sunset

3.30am at the watering hole

One problem is does create is wee stops. Its fine for the boys, they just line up facing outwards...

Desert moooney

but for the girls we have to hide round one side of the truck and tell the boys to keep themselves busy.

On Chistmas Eve eve eve we stayed a my favourite bush camp by a country mile- Spitzkoppe. After Miles and Miles of nothing massive rock formations rise out of the desert. We arrived late afternoon which gave us a couple of hours before nightfall to go climbing yey!!!!

Best bush camp ever

Spitzkoppe (our bus is just at the base of that big rock

Spitzkoppe

Sunset at Spitzkoppe

Me

Me and Meg Spitzkoppe

We're in Swakomund for Christmas which is a really odd german colonial town in the middle of Namib desert in the Atlantic.

I've got some sandboarding lined up for christmas day followed by dinner on the beach.

After Chistmas we've got a fairl long 4 days of driving to get to Cape Town in time for NYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

written by  lizziecarver on December 24, 2010 from Swakopmund, Namibia
from the travel blog: Backpacking... it's not as fun as Insurance
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Anyway I woke up the next day to find 2 stockings at the end of the bed.

Christmas Stockings

Sweeties

Stocking time (still drunk)

I had a terrible hangover/was still drunk but had already comitted to going sandboarding. Sandboarding involves lying on a bit of 6 by 4 and going head first down a sand dune. The MOJOR drawback of it is that there are no lifts so it also involves hiking up massive sand dunes in the heat, which doesn't mix well with a wine hangover. It was really good fun and by dune number 3 the adreneline had made me feel a little bit better. After a couple of epic fails (with a lot of sand in my mouth) I clocked 69 km/hour, which is pretty fast when your face is so close to the sand.

Christmas Day, trying to hide the hangover

Sand boarding

Sand Angel

In the afternoon we went down to the beach for drinks, secret santa and sunset...

Christmas on the beach

Sitting on Santa's knee

Sunset on Christmas Day

We stopped at some of the dunes along the way to go climbing an get even sandier. The climb was really tiring, took down both Jess and Meg's cameras (lens error- bleep of death), but it gave us another opportunity to do some quite blatent posing.

More sand dunes

Hot after the long walk up

Massive poser

Sand in my boots