David & I, were up early to see if we could catch any last animals at the hide before sunrise, we only saw brown hyena, a few giraffe who were very cautious about coming in to the waterhole & a sole elephant who was happy to splash around, as well as a few birds.

After breaky and packing up we stopped in at the information center, which told of the camps history with elephant killings, they still have the gantry crane where the lifted the elephants up to slaughter them for the meat and ivory.

We stopped at Okawo waterhole, where we saw hundreds of various vultures & 4 or 5 jackals eating a carcass, there were also a few giraffe & zebra. Along the main road we saw plenty of giraffe grazing alongside the road – some are extremely tall and dark in colour – indicating that they are old – this is so nice to see. Our last waterhole before exiting the park was Renosleveli where we found a large congregation of giraffe and elephant herds & the elusive mountain zebra. You can tell, that they are the Mountain Zebra, by the fact that their stripes don’t extend onto the belly. Brendan was happy – both zebra species ticked off!

We signed out of the park after the most thorough car check we have had (even checked the toiletry bags in case we had meat or eggs)- even at boarder crossings they didn’t check anything like this, they were very friendly though. We soon had to pass through a vet check, where you are to disinfect your shoes & tyres, but as it was the middle of the day & extremely hot the officials we sitting in the shade & just waved us on…

We reached the town of Opuwo which is in, the most remote, & environmentally hostile area in Namibia, oh joy! We watched as half naked Himba women walked down the street with Herero women, dressed in large 1700’s style clothes with large hats, that resemble cattle horns, as well as people in western clothes- a melting pot of fashion, African style. We followed the signs to our lodge up a steep dirt track to the top of the range, the view of the valley below is very impressive.

Once checked in David & I headed back to town to change some money & get a few supplies, unfortunately we reached the bank at 3.15pm & they closed at 3:30pm they said they didn’t have time to change any currency- so come back tomorrow…. great. we grabbed a few supplies from the supermarket and made our way back to the lodge. It was hot so we ordered a few drinks and sat by the infinity pool while catching up on a few emails (finally some internet). After, a nice meal for dinner, a fantastic sleep on an actual bed!