Cape Town to Nairobi Day 11 Waterberg Plateau

This morning when we woke up we could hear the Baboons in the hills making an extra amount of noise. It’s a weird sound, to me it sounds like men with deep voices grunting and screaming. Our guide said there was probably a leopard or large snake in the baboon camp and that’s why they were yelling so loud and so much. It was an eerie way to wake up. I much preferred waking up to the lions roaring when we were in Etosha!

Today is just a short drive to Windhoek, which is about 300,000 people and we get to stay in a hotel!! YAY!! No messing with that damn tent! Although it was put away wet and probably stinks now….oh well!

Since the drive is short we stop at a coffee house that has a crafts market across the street. I went to check out the crafts before grabbing a coffee but I didn’t stay long. The set up is like a whole street full of single car garage sized shops all selling the same thing. The crappy part is that you have half a dozen men trying to get you to their shop and you are constantly followed closely with them almost trying to trick you into buying something. I touched a cloth that had a painting of 2 Giraffes on it and right away the guy took it down and tried to force me to take it. I have a habit of touching everything while I shop and here if you touch it means you want to buy it. I need to keep my hands in my pockets! Even when in one persons shop there are 3 or 4 other men waiting for you to come out so they can try to get you to go to their shop. I browsed for a bit but then a large woman yelled at me to buy something from her and I didn’t understand her and so she yelled at me again to buy from her and support her, that’s when I decided I would just go have a coffee, lol.

We got to Windhoek around noon and were dropped off at a mall to kill a couple hours until our hotel was ready for us. The lobby was nice, the rooms were mediocre, the internet connection was horrific!! Facebook and Blog sites were blocked and the connection took forever and often cut out.

We went to Joe’s Beer House for supper, which was great! It’s kind of an indoor/outdoor set up where the tables were covered but you had to run through the rain to another canopy for the bar. I got to try some Zebra – delicious, Crocodile- kind of like fishy chicken breast, Ostrich- delicious but I’ve had it before, Kudu- yum!, and something else I can’t remember (I also had a bottle of wine!) All the food was great! Everyone loved it.