Day 36 to 40 ( 21st to 25th August 2015 )

We drove from Namutoni in Etosha to Otjiwarongo and then 70 km further to Okahoa. It was getting late and an unexpected signpost directed us to a National Heritage Site with camping facilities, a museum, a restaurant, bar and a 10m2 swimming pool. The camp site was situated in the middle of a township and was not bigger than 4 times the size of our truck with a baobab tree taking up half the space. The facilities were clean and had a 24 hour security guard. The history behind the Heritage site dates back to the SA/ SWAPO war where people were tortured under the baobab tree.

We were awake very early the next morning due to the many roosters around the campsite. We then tackled the notorious road to Epopa falls. 180 km of sweat, gravel, detours,corregations and dust,dust,dust took us 6 gruelling hours.

We stayed one night at the Amarunga lodge and two nights at the Epopa campsite where we had a very nice site on the Kunene River. The river was very low and the falls were more of a cascade but still impressive. While packing up to leave a few drops of rain fell that changed the chalky landscape into the most unexpected colourful scenery but lasted only a few minutes and when the sun came out everything changed to white dust again.On our trip back we met two motorcyclists on their way to Epopa and by chance found out that Braam lived in Otjiwarongo. We asked where we could get some welding repair work done to our vehicle and he replied that it could be done at his workshop and we should just ask for his brother Joseph. We drove to Okahoa and slept at the National Heritage campsite once again.