We're into our last week in Rundu. On 29 th we travel to Windhoek and then fly to Nairobi on the 30 th August and stay there a few days before starting out trip to see the Mountain gorillas in Rwanda. This trip starts from Nairobi on 6 th September and last for 6 weeks in total when we arrive in Livingstone near Victoria Falls. From there we fly to Durban and spend 6 weeks in Mozambique and South Africa and leave from Cape Town on 2 December, so we have lots of travelling. We have now sold our Pajero but have use of it until we leave Rundu so that is very convenient. Now busy packing a few things to send home via the post and trying to get all our things into 2 rucksacks and a day bag each, so that is a challenge. We are taking enough that we can still camp and be self sufficient and hope to do some camping in South Africa. Found a fuel for the stove, Benzine, that seems to be similar to Coleman's White gas at home and works much better than petrol which blocked the jet frequently as we found in Botswanawhen camping. Also have spares from home. Helen's also pleased with her Goose Down sleeping bag that I bought in Windheok and isn't bothered by the cold desert nights anymore.
We'll try and update our Blogspot when we have access to the iternet but can't say when this will be....so bye bye from Namibia and to Namibia for the time being!!

View from a koppie in Spitzkoppie as the sunset but this is looking to the east ! Our campsite is in the distance between the two outcrops. We had climbed to the "Bushmen's Paradise" earlier in the day and found the rock paintings in a hidden valley on top of a kopie. Their are chains to help with the climb up the rock face but it made us puff!! 

14 August 2006 This is the last of the floods in the desert at Soussevlei. The photo was taken from the top of the dune and you can clearly see green areas in the desert landscape.We saw a Gemsbok as we drove in the 4WD track but it didn't stay around. 

15 August 2006. This is Helen on a dune during our visit to the desert. We walked up the dunes at Soussevlei and along the ridge. It was early in the day to aviod the worst of the heat but the scenery was amazing as the rains had brought life to the desert with lots of birds around and grass. There was even water in the vlei although it had dried up in dead vlei.