Tsauchab brought us ‘back’ towards civilisation and the nice apple pies that are served at Solitaire.
Around Tsauchab there is not much asphalt to be found but the gravel and rocky stretches were really well maintained and graded so we made good progress towards the Rostock Ritz Lodge and Campsite. Along the way we stopped in Solitaire for the apple pie and enjoyed looking at all the other tourists. We ran into a nice Dutch couple admiring our truck, as we did admire their rental camper too :).
The roads leading into Solitaire from Naukluft (D854 and C14) were great but once all the tourist traffic from their C19 and Sossusvlei joined, the C14 turned into the most corrugated piece of crap we can drive the truck on.
It is really really really shitty to drive our truck (with it’s stiff axles and leaf suspension) on badly corrugated gravel. The whole truck shakes and slowly starts to fall apart. With all the money being spend by the tourist, I hope some of it is left over to grade the roads more frequently, here but also on many other local and national park roads too.
So we slowly drove the last bit into the Rostock Ritz property and had some drinks and a few chips for Zev on their great terrace, overlooking the valley.
The lodge consists of many dome shaped buildings, the main one consisting of quite a few and they were nice and cool inside in the hot weather and beautifully decorated too, with even a few small ponds scattered around them.
We sat at the pool before driving the 5k’s back towards the campsite, not much more then a few rocky places, side by side with a braai and small cover for the sun, but with an amazing view of the surrounding hills.
There were 3 ‘pet’ Zebras on the property too but we never got to see them, we can definitely recommend the campsite for it’s view but the rest of the site was very minimal.
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