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11 July, Monday Truly Damaraland

7/26/2011

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11 July, Monday  
  
 
All of us had a good night and are ready for the day. We stop at
Kamanjab for diesel and drive to Twyfelfontein through breathtaking views:
rolling golden savannahs, acacia trees, stone hills covered with tufts of grass
and at places through actually water! Willie and I keep on commenting on the
beauty and the fact that rivers have water in. 
 
Our first ever 4x4 experience was in 1985 when we visited friends
of ours in Khorixas, Werner and Carien. They took us on a 4x4 trip to
  Twyfelfontein, known for its palm trees. The existing fully developed lodge was
  in its beginning phases and we slept in one of the unfinished bungalows on
  mattresses. Just before we went to bed Werner spotted a zebra snake of the
  spitting cobra family and considered the second most dangerous snake after the
  mamba, outside the bungalow. It was a cold evening and the next moment the
  snake slithered into the bungalow through an unfinished drain pipe. Pandemonium
  followed. We grabbed the sleeping kids, ran to the landdrover and shoved 3
  screaming toddlers, by this time, to safety. Werner finally managed to kill the
  1 ½ meter snake with a shovel - a very scary experience that has a little twist
  in the story which I cannot tell here. (Ps Willie likes to tell the story...)

From Twyfelfontein into serious 4x4 terrain: Damaraland! We crawl
slowly past the rhino stones and organ pipes through breathtaking beauty as far
as the eye can see. Hugo and Andrej sit on the roof and we hear them talk and
laugh kilometer after kilometer. The sun is on its way down and we need a
place to sleep. Willie drives into a narrow river bed, but we find a good enough
spot to pitch our camp and find hard pieces of wood which burns for hours. 
 
It is so awesome to be back in a place that we loved and that we
are familiar with. We play backgammon, sit around the fire and have a thick pea
soup with smoked sausages for dinner.

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    Caren

    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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