Namib Desert

After Cape Town we spent a few more days in the area before getting on an overland tour through Southern Namibia.  As fierce independent travelers, both Eva and I were reluctant about doing a group tour.  Later after we got to the end of the tour and realized the whole country of Namibia was booked solid and public transport almost doesn't exist to the places we wanted to go, a tour wasn't a bad idea at all.  Beyond that we met many cool people from many cool places and didn't have to think about planning for one week.  Our tour started in Cape Town and was 6 days long.  We went up through the Northern Cape, canoed on the Orange River, explored a bit of the Fish River Canyon, saw the famous Soussevlei, and sandboarded in Swakopmund.  

The Fish River Canyon.

An endemic quiver tree.

Our lovely truck Jimi.

The moon rising over the Sesriem Canyon.

Dune 45 at sunrise.

Deadvlei.

(Stolen from Wikipedia; a.k.a. I did a really crap job taking pictures).

The flamingos in Walvis Bay.