Cape Town to Walvis by Car

On our trip last year we decided that instead of taking the 2 hour flight up to Walvis Bay, we were going to drive up. Man talk about a long trip. Our trip started in Cape Town at about 4 in the morning and ended in Walvis the next day. We had a stop over in Okahandja! If we had driven through it would have been something like 20 hours in the car. (I'll take you through the trip as we venture along through this blog.) 

Its a long long long trip by car but it's worth doing at least once.. The scenery along the road was so beautiful and one can get a true sense of the vastness of the country when driving along the B1 highway. There's nothing but sandy gravel plains as far ass you can see and hardly a car on the road, (granted we were travelling up on the 27 December when most sane people are at home recovering from Christmas...)

I look back on that trip now as the point at which I realized exactly how naive and ignorant I was about the Country of Namibia. For me when ever i heard about living in Namibia images of camels and oasis came to mind... Sad to say, I though the same way as most foreign tourist think about South Africa. But I'm happy to say i was pleasantly surprised.


Walvis Bay was magically and climbing Dune 7 was one of the highlights of the trip.

Dune 7 from the parking area

Half-way up - 15 minutes to this point

View from the Top..

 As 2 thirty year old's it took us 30 minutes to climb the Dune, while our younger and more active cousins took a little over 12 minutes... Really put the old folk to shame... 


Do you have any pics or stories you would like to share about you trips to Dune 7 or anywhere else in Namibia... let me know.