Ghanzi and Windhoek

We arrived in Ghanzi and immediately put our swimmers on to go to the quarry. Twelve of us piled in the back of a pickup truck and went for the swim. It was really nice. We made our way down some rocks onto a floating platform and jumped in. It was slightly more than refreshing. So so cold. After a while it became a bit less cold, but none the less enjoyable. We only spent a bit more than an hour there, and then headed back to camp to get ready for our walk with the San Bushmen. Mo and I decided we'd take the opportunity for a $5usd upgrade per person to a bushman hut.

Probably not the best $5 I've ever spent, but it was pretty cool. 

The walk with the bushmen was really good. We had a translator that spoke English (he was a bushman too, but wore western style clothes) and the family of bushmen showed us how they found medicine plants, hunted, used ostrich eggs as water bottles, and made fire. They spoke one of the clicking languages that is pretty much impossible to imitate. At the end it lost a little of the authenticity when I found out they do go to the store and buy things like pasta and rice and then someone saw them at the camp bar. Eh. Still cool.

We came back to camp after the walk and had lasagna and coleslaw for dinner and s'mores for dessert. I also horrifically lost a chubby bunny challenge. 

I struggled in the bushman hut and managed to get some of the thatching in my eye trying to manoeuvre the mossie netting, but managed to get a bit of sleep before the 4:40 reveille. Took a shower in the dark, that was interesting, and got on the truck for a 600km drive through into Namibia. 

We arrived in Windhoek and had a bit more than an hour in the city to change money and go shopping. At the camp, Arebbush, we were put in the very back - probably the most fancy camp we've been to. Definitely the nicest showers thus far! 

We used the Internet for a bit and got ready to go backin to town for dinner at Joe's beer house. 

Oh, and Khumbu, our driver let me drive the truck! Well, almost.. He let me sit in the driver's seat.

Mo and I shared a zebra steak and an oryx schnitzel. The zebra was my favourite. The funniest part of the night was when the taxi picked us up for dinner. There were 14 of us. Eight got in at reception and then the taxi continued to the camp site to pick up the remaining six.

It was slightly dark when we got in and Natalie proceeded to find what she thought was an empty seat.  She was surprised when the seat was moving and objected to being sat on. Sonja was already in the seat and not in the market for a seat buddy. We all had a good laugh about that for the rest of the night.

It rained and the wind was blowing the tents all around that night, making for a terrible sleep. I managed to oversleep by 15 minutes as I apparently had a conversation with Mo that I was getting up when she left the tent, but I have no recollection of that and jumped out of my sleeping bag at 5:55 when i was meant to be up at 5:40. Whoops.

We're now on a 5 or so hour drive to Etosha where we will hopefully see lots more game!