Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2013

Climbing Sand Dunes in the in the Namib Wueste - Soussusvlei - Namibia

Friday 8.02:

On the way to Sossusvlei we passed the Duwisib castle built in the middle of nowhere by a German Baron in 1908.

In the afternoon we arrived in the Sossusvlei national park. In this part of the Namib desert up to 350 m high dunes were formed. After setting up our rooftop tent and jumping into the camp's swimming pool. We drove into the dunes and climbed the first one that came into our sight. The scenery and colors were amazing and made up for the extremely exhausting climb up to the top.








Saturday 9.02:

The next morning we got up at 4:30 to drive to Sossusvlei. Here we climbed up the Big Daddy. It is the highest dune with 350 m.






It took us about 1:30 hours to climb up along the sand ridge. Down we ran the steep side of the dune in about 3 minutes. So much fun!!!!
We ended up in the Hiddenvlei which is a clay pan that fills with water only every ten year.

 



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