While we hiked the dunes our crew cooked us breakfast. As you can see from the picture, everything we need rides right under us in the truck. It amazes me that this truck can sustain 25 people for days at a time!
So after breakfast I did an optional drive deeper into the desert. Of course this costs extra, R150 or roughly $50, for 3 hours of a guided tour and a hike through some dunes to Sossusvlei. It's a very famous spot where the water evaporated 900 years ago and the petrafied trees remain standing. Jennifer Lopez filmed a part of The Cell here and they helicoptered horses over the dunes to bring them here. It was AWESOME!!
After the tour we headed back to camp which was only about 10km but I saw some Ostrich and Sprinbok.
The rest of the afternoon we took for ourselves because it is just too hot to do anything. I went to the pool and got a really great sunburn in what looks like a reverse farmers tan. I must have been standing in the water long enough to burn my shoulders but my lower arms are white, lol. I did some laundry in the shower, but to be honest I had been avoiding the showers and bathrooms since we got here. They are FILLED with moths from the night before and some of the biggest beetles and locusts I've ever seen. It's ridiculous!!
In the evening we went to a canyon and did some hiking then back to camp for an open fire cooked supper of chicken kabobs, sausage, potatoes, and home made bread. A couple bottles of wine rounded out the evening nicely and I slept like a baby. I have been sleeping surprisingly well in a hot musty tent.
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