Day 14 to 15 (30 July to 31 July 2015)

Left Luderitz for Windhoek and drove the 11km to Kolmanskop. Did the usual guided tour and found it most interesting. The town Luderitz was founded by Adolf Luderitz and diamonds were discovered at Kolmanskop and consequently the town was built by the Germans in a mere 6 months with numerous houses, schools, hospitals, shops abattoirs and even a ice making factory. The workers were paid by means of 0,8 carrots of diamonds per day which would presently amount to tens of thousands of Rands per day. The town was deserted almost as quickly as it was built after a larger diamond field was discovered just north of Oranjemund. The town is today a ghost town with sand filling almost all the rooms of the buildings.

I then drove a further 100 km to the well known wild horses of the Namib. There are literally hundreds of these wild horses in the desert and I watched some of them drinking at the waterhole. One interesting fact I found out was that a colleague of mine in Nelspruit Cristo Greyling’s daughter Telane did her Phd on these wild Horses.

I drove a further 350 km and slept in a small village called Asab .

The next day was a 400km drive to Windhoek. The change of vegetation from Desert to green grass and trees was very apparent. After arriving at Windhoek and booking in  at Arebusch Lodge and Campsite I went to Joe’s beerhaus on my scooter ” yammy “. This Beerhaus is not to be missed in Windhoek.