Beachboys

Today is restday, beach and relax in Swapkopmund. Swapkopmund is a town along the atlantique Namibian coast, with approx 35000 habitants and was constructed in the end of the 19th century by german colonists for their shipping. It's the most german spoken (and also afrikaans) town, has a considerable german population (still) and is said to be the "whitest town" in whole Africa! Amazing architecture with wooden houses in pastelle colours, situated at the sea with a beautiful coastline with the famous red sand dunes... looks very inviting for swimming but is actually not a friendly place at all! The place has particularly cold water and... seriously shark infested!! Swapkopmund is quite rich, especially since the find of Uranium which now is being mined, but also from its beautiful tourist resorts. For you who reads the gossip lines probably know that Brad and Angelinas daughter was born here... That was totally irrelevant and I couldn't care less... but it made big headlines at the time!

Arno has read the blog, and there are some changes to the names of the places visited since the route has changed as they've been going, but all for the better though! I believe they're kind of ahead of schedule and travelled from Epupa to Uis, leaving one or two places behind. I'll fill in the details when I get more information!

Uis is a small town, in the middle of nowhere, next to the highest mountain ridge of Namibia, the Brandberg, standing 2573m high, hosting "the white lady" rock painting, believed to be 20000 years old. It's kind of a "Ayers rock" standing by itself, burning red in the sunset... I wonder if Bram climbed it?

Anyhow, time to enjoy our own place, great weather today, it's sunday and last day of the springbreak, think I'm going to get my book and hit a sunchair at the poolside! Sounds like a good plan to me... stay tuned!