Sunday 2023/01/01

Spitzkoppe – Uis

 

Happy New Year! Breakfast among the rocks is as beautiful as dinner! Great view, different birds and lizards. But the first thing we do in the morning is to take down the tent, as long as it's not that warm. We start the first day of the year quite relaxed.

Today's route to Uis is done in about 2 hours. Unfortunately, our desired campsite is fully booked, so we check in at the Black Mountain Restcamp. Reminds a bit of the state camps in the national parks. Not particularly attractive, a bit old and with a pervasive smell of fries, meat and ketchup. But what the heck, we have to shop here tomorrow because today is  Sunday and a public holiday and the supermarket isn't open.

So fries and sandwiches for lunch. We want to think about how to proceed. We skip the guided tour to the cave painting "White Lady", which we had actually planned – it's just too hot to spend four hours in the mountains. Around 3 p.m. the daily thunderstorm – oh no, there was none yesterday. We use the time here for a communication (yes, there is Wifi), writing diary, going through our photos. We splash around in the pool and then make dinner. We sleep better than we thought.