After our ride to the Cape Cross, today we would be going to Windhoek the capital of Namibia.
There is an asphalt road in great condition from Swakopmund to Windhoek, however we would take a little detour in the first part of our ride to visit the Moon Landscape area which is part of the Welwitschia Drive. The valleys of the Swakop River is an spectacular sight. We took the opportunity of stopping many times and take pictures. We also past the farm and oasis of Goanikontes, where its green and lushy vegetation is a starkly different from the barren land of the Namibian desert.
For lunch we stopped in a farm just at the entrance of Usakos. Usakos is a very nice city at the foot of some amazing hills in the distance. While we were eating a BMW GSA (newer model) entered the parking lot and we met Riaan who works in the city of Gogais, Namibia (which is the last city in Namibia before you leave to Botswana (we would pass it the next day).
The arrival in Windhoek was a bit of a shock. We had not seen many cars in the last days and meeting the hustle and bustle of a capital city was not fun. Windhoek is not a big city with 330k of its 2.5M inhabitants living there.
Our accommodation for the night was very nice and it was situated in an area of town with a lot of other similar type of accommodations (small boutique hotel, b&b).
For dinner we went to one of the town´s most well known restaurants, Joe´s Beer Garden and we sat outside and shared a table with two young men from Germany. It was fun speaking with them about ours and their travels. One of the young man had the courage to eat a skewer of different types of meat. He did not like the springbok and found the tastiest the crocodile.
We went relatively early to bed as tomorrow we would enter Botswana and had a long ride plus a border crossing to do.
Make Life a Ride !
Facebook post with some photos of the DAY
Click HERE for all the photos of the DAY !
There is an asphalt road in great condition from Swakopmund to Windhoek, however we would take a little detour in the first part of our ride to visit the Moon Landscape area which is part of the Welwitschia Drive. The valleys of the Swakop River is an spectacular sight. We took the opportunity of stopping many times and take pictures. We also past the farm and oasis of Goanikontes, where its green and lushy vegetation is a starkly different from the barren land of the Namibian desert.
For lunch we stopped in a farm just at the entrance of Usakos. Usakos is a very nice city at the foot of some amazing hills in the distance. While we were eating a BMW GSA (newer model) entered the parking lot and we met Riaan who works in the city of Gogais, Namibia (which is the last city in Namibia before you leave to Botswana (we would pass it the next day).
The arrival in Windhoek was a bit of a shock. We had not seen many cars in the last days and meeting the hustle and bustle of a capital city was not fun. Windhoek is not a big city with 330k of its 2.5M inhabitants living there.
Our accommodation for the night was very nice and it was situated in an area of town with a lot of other similar type of accommodations (small boutique hotel, b&b).
For dinner we went to one of the town´s most well known restaurants, Joe´s Beer Garden and we sat outside and shared a table with two young men from Germany. It was fun speaking with them about ours and their travels. One of the young man had the courage to eat a skewer of different types of meat. He did not like the springbok and found the tastiest the crocodile.
We went relatively early to bed as tomorrow we would enter Botswana and had a long ride plus a border crossing to do.
Make Life a Ride !
Facebook post with some photos of the DAY
Click HERE for all the photos of the DAY !
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