From Aus we drove through beautiful flowing hills with small cattle farms left and right of the road. Shortly after leaving Aus we passed the entry to the national park that ‘houses’ the wild horses. There weren’t many people on the road but the ones that were, all seemed to turn off to see the horses. From afar it looked like all the horses had congregated around a building which looked like stables so we continued on our merry way.
Towards the dunes and Luderitz!
Signs of getting close to Luderitz were clear, more traffic, including bulldozers and dunes! Beautiful flowing dunes that had covered the road from time to time but also covered the rail road tracks on the side of the road. The bulldozers were clearing this and actually moving mountains, of sand.
A few kilometers from Luderitz the ‘sperrgebiet’ starts and this is also the paid entry to the Kolmanskop village. An old settlement that was now partially covered in sand and a major tourist spot in this desolate area.
Beside the village is the entry to the ‘sperrgebiet’, a huge area, all the way from the border of South Africa to here which holds diamonds, on the surface! So no entry for anybody but the certified and verified people.
We made the usual touristy pictures in Kolmanskop and went on our merry way, only a few kilometers to the supermarket in Luderitz and our campsite at ‘Shark Island’.
The campsite is in a way the most beautiful thing in the world, sitting on a rocky outcrop with camping sites dotted around it. The ablutions are shared but recently renewed and clean and there was electricity on some sites too.
We found a great spotted and enjoyed tje beautiful weather while looking for sea shells and wondering if we saw a dolphin or shark fin sticking out of the water from time to time.
Our second day was just as beautiful and we went with the truck across the bay to look at the landscape and to try and spot a brown hyena.
We drove some great sandy off-road tracks and came across a group of 4 cars that we had spotted in Ai-Ais but also in Aus too.
No brown hyenas for us in real life but we did see many signs and tracks of the animals, what a strange and wonderful feeling, to know that hyenas are around but out of sight.
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