We spend a night in Windhoek and went for the locally brewed (voluntary nach Reinheintsgebot) beers. What a pleasure!
The next day we headed off to the coat. We chose to take the shorter but gravel road option along the C28. It is a very scenic route which transports you from the friendly climate of Windhoek within 3 hours into the desert. 
Schwarkopmund is quite peculiar city. It is in the middle of the desert but it has a beach with ice cold Atlantic Ocean water. We spend two days in Schwarkopmund to rest. We enjoyed ourselves in the 100% German bakeries. Fred was introduced to amazing things like Aprikosenkuchen and Mohnkuchen. 
Before heading back South again, we gave a visit to the Flamingo colony in Walvis Bay. Beautiful birds, but be aware of the flying midgies in the air!
Heading towards the Namib Naukluft Park it was gravel all the way along the C14. After 5 hours of solid driving we finally reached Sesriem, the last outpost before the famous Sossusvlei, the number one tourist attraction of Namibia. Immediately we drove through the camp and towards the dunes. We followed everybody’s advice that the dunes are at their best during either sunset or sunrise. And how true they all were!
It is hard to describe the beauty of those huge soft mountains of red sand. Despite their fame one really feels isolated. Lets rather let the pictures speak for themselves.
After the dunes there was still one highlight of this so diverse country to visit, the Fish River Canyon. It is the second biggest canyon on Earth after the Grand Canyon in the States. And it is BIG! Again, it is hard to describe the feeling of calmness and amazement one experiences when standing in front of a natural creation like this one.
Just before crossing the border into ‘homeland’ South Africa one last stop at the hot springs of Ais-Ais as we thought that it would be the perfect ending to the trip to spoil the body in a bath. The 60 degree water that pours out of the burning earth is anything but that. Despite this we enjoyed the stay and had a good nights sleep.
We returned to Cape Town at 4am and at 7am it was time to get up and get to work. Dream over! Plans for the next one were already underway.
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