An endless honeymoon

It is something past six in the morning. I am already at work, sitting outside our tent in the Hardap region of Namibia, admiring the sunrise and sipping on my second cup of coffee. This travel blogging thing is pretty nice most of the time. Alya and I have been travelling around the world together since the day we met three years ago. We’re camping, hiking and diving, and trying to see the world on the lowest budget possible. We got married in South Africa in January and are still on our Namibia honeymoon trip. We’ve spent the last two months exploring the vast openness, expecting intense heat and to be in the desert most of the time. In the end, we saw more rain here than Cape Town does in winter. Crossing from north to south and from west to east surpassed our expectations. Namibia is all about views! There are grandiose landscapes, colonial towns, ghost towns, the spectacular red dunes of the Namib, the rugged Skeleton Coast, incredible waterfalls, granite peaks and massive canyons. The variety of wildlife we saw in this harsh environment is extraordinary, from oryxes and ground squirrels to some of the Big Five in Etosha, thousands of seals on the Skeleton Coast, and in the Caprivi a hippo walked so close to our tent that we could hear it breathing. – Campbell Louw, Rawsonville