It’s been a good holiday week. Okay, it didn’t start off so exciting. I traveled to Lusaka initially to get my dentist appointments over with…yes, the
tooth that broke eating rice in Mongu is now fixed and hopefully there will be
no further teeth problems in my near future.
It was certainly a problem dental year.
Anyway, after the dentist saga I met up with my friends from Mongu to attend our friend Karen’s wedding
which we were all quite excited about since it was our first Zambian
wedding. Turns out it was pretty
westernized but still fun. We watched
them say their vows in the morning and then attended the reception and enjoyed
some dancing and although it was freezing we braved the cold and stayed until
the very end (in fact, I think we were the last guests to leave).
The next morning I left to
Namibia with my friend Mine – Namibia has been one of the countries I’ve been
anxious to get to so was excited to finally be making my way there. Mine and I decided not to do too much planning and really just sort of planned as we went. Unfortunately, we didn’t plan for the extreme
cold which we encountered upon our arrival. It was
crazy! We both had to buy jackets and basically
wore as many clothes as possible to stay warm.
We still had a great time visiting the beautiful Namib desert and taking
a day trip to Sandwich Harbor (outside of Walvis Bay). We stayed in Windhoek a couple of days and
then drove to the coast where we stayed for several days. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to
drive down south (to Fish River Canyon which I’ve heard is beautiful) but maybe
next time. We loved the amazing
coastline bumping up against the desert though and had a great time learning
how to “sandboard.” Turns out it’s
really just like snowboarding only very sandy.
Our only complaint was the cold…who knew the desert would be so cold? But the beauty made up for our
lack of warmth.
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