We left the Canyon Roadhouse in good spirits, happy to be back on the road again. Filled to the brim with diesel we left the campsite and heading out onto the gravel road and make good progress.
It wasn’t long before we ran into some Italians, that we had previously seen on the campsites, parked on the side of the road.
We pulled up next to them, asked them if they needed help and were answered: ’Giraffes!’.
Standing 20 meters orso from the road were 3 giraffes enjoying their morning’s breakfast and we had totally overlooked them, not even spotted them.
Zev was really excited, as were we ofcourse and we shot as many images and videos as we could and some might even make it onto this blog at some point 🙂
Before long we continued on our way, enjoying the good gravel roads with the odd bit of dust, passing by dade and sheep farms before hitting the main tarmac road that leads all the way to Luderitz on the Atlantic coast.
We slowly drove higher and higher, up via sloping hills and into the tiny village of Aus, we thought it might be quite big initially but after having seens signs for a deserted village earlier, we were greeted with the cutest little village so far. It had a great fuelstation/supermarket/ATM/Liquourstore/Bakery, so we filled out on groceries and sweets before making the last 4km’s to ’Klein Aus-Vista’ , a lodge/campsite from Gondwana.
The lodge has quite a few chalets, dotted around the property, out of sight between the rocky hills as well as a great campsite with super neat ablutions in another neat little valley, a good 15 or 20 minute walk from the main building.
The food in the lodge was really nice, and we enjoyed the german sausages and stuffed Zev with pasta and fries, trying to make sure he would gain some weight. His coughs had gotten worse and we know it can take more then a week for him to recover.
Poor little trooper!
We ran into a nice young English couple too, who were travelling this part of Africa, before flying to Nepal and Japan to continue their gap year, what an amazing trip that must be!
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