Tuesday 2023/01/10

Epupa Falls

We start at 7:30 am for a walk with our guide upstream. Passing campsites and lodges (not much going on), some Himba people who apparently want to build a new village here and also passing our guide's house built from stones. We continue under palm trees on the banks of the Kunene.

The palm trees are not as green and pretty as on the Mediterranean, hardly anything is trimmed or cleared away here. Unless someone taps the tree for the production of palm wine.

We see some birds and eventually four little crocodiles too – so they really exist here. If you don't know what to look for, it's hard to spot the animals on the rocks in the river.

After more than three hours we are back, drink water with our guide and then prepare ourselves a late breakfast or early lunch.

Then it's off to the pool – we now have the campsite all to ourselves for an hour or two. Then a cold Malawi Shandy and charging of the devices (electricity is only available at the bar and the restaurant will remain closed today).

Our fridge is not running anymore. It's also hot here and doesn't cool down at night despite the wind.

The SIM card balance is already running out again, probably because of the many pictures we posted, but only 180NT$ can be loaded online through a website at a time. So we're offline again.

Instead we play boules with palm nuts.

Cooking in the evening, a short walk to the falls accompanied by the campsite dogs (which bark at the monkeys and squirrels at night), a coke at the bar against possible stomach infections and off to bed.