At the morning of our fourth day we went to “!Khwa ttu”. That’s a cultural centre which was built up by a Swiss lady. She bought the farmland and donated it to the Kwoi ans San, the Natives of this part of Africa. She helped them to build up a culture centre which teaches about the culture of the San and Kwoi. All the employee of that centre hat do to a training which goes for 9 months. We learned that there birds exist who pick up the insectcs they catch onto thorns of the bushes. The let the insects dry to eat them later. They do nothing other than producing Biltong (Jerkey)! The San use a poison to threat the top of their arrows. The poison is a milky juice of a plant and it is deadly poisonous. But it doen’s kills instantly. If the arrow hits the animal, the end of the arrow falls down to the ground. The San know now that the animal has been hitted. The poison needs about 4 hours to kill the animal. So the San mark the spot where they have found the end of the arrow and chase the animaly traces the next day.
The evening we enjoyed at the seaside. The sunset was amazing. Almost like the Sea wanted to spend us a awesome “Good Bye” because we are travelling now at the countryside.
New day, new adventure. But for today we planned to travel the whole day. We would like to drive up to Sprongbok, but we didn’t the whole way. We stranded in a small “outback village” called Kamieskroon. There we’ve found a nice B&B owned by a nice Ladie, Janet. There wasn’t much more than a Hotel many B&B’s and a Petrols Station with shop. Out of season there is not much more than a nice community where everone helps to each other and great sunsets. During September, when the wild flower season hat it’s hightime, the village must be flooded by tourists.
At Thursday we passed the South African / Namibian Border. At the South Africa side of the border we had to fill in many forms. I think it was about four times we had to write in the same stuff into a different lokking form. after that we had to do the same stuff at the Namibian border. Also we had to let there about 200 Rand to pay for the “best gravel roads in the world” how the Namibian say.
But firs we travelled on some quite good tar roads. Near the Fishriver Valley we hat the pleasure to meet those worlds best gravel roads. They didn’t differ to many other gravel roads we know. I think the point is just that about 70% of the roads are gravel roads. Next day we visit the Fish River Valley. It is impressive, but there are not many lookouts. Actually there ist just one Main view point. But that one has been renovated in 2010 and is very nice. The Valley itself is very curved ons has not the same wide open feeling like the Grand Canyon.
after the valley we drove up to Keetmanshoop on the C12. The Road was sometimes heavily corrugated and we had to drive slowly for some parts. But almost at Ketmanshoop the road ended in the Löwen River. There was a deep sandy section which was not passable for us. Even not for the 4x4 Bus which followed behind us. They diced to take the way over Naute Dam. But also there it was muddy sometimes and at a big puddle we had to turn, as there was no way though for our small, tiny track flee. So we had to drive all the 80 km back to the Canon Roadhouse where we stayed for a night, to give it another try at the next day.
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