The Kirks

Here’s a great picture of the sossusvlei area and the dunes surrounding it.

Finally here is the last photograph album from the africa trip (posted from Windhoek airport).

5am start again!  There is a big issue here about “seeing things at sunrise” which is good once you get there but it is pretty rough when you have to get up.  We were driven by very chatty German/Namibian woman from the Namib Sky Balloon Safari company to the launch site which was about an hour away.  When […]

Because I’m such a teenager (!?) I was too lazy to do a blog for a while, but it’s back to me for the second last day of our Africa trip (cue Mum - ‘NO! DON’T LET YOUR MIND GO HOME!’ Me - ‘My mind is already home, sitting in my room, doing MSN.’).
Today we got […]

The flight to Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge was on a tiny six seater Cessna. We arrived at Windhoek’s “little” airport called curiously Eros Airport and met Dion (?) our pilot who grabbed our bags, walked out onto the tarmac and stuffed them in the back of the plane. This sure beats check in at Heathrow.  […]

We had to get up “hideously” early to get to Cape Town International at 6am.  The airport at Cape Town is a pretty big airport and nicely appointed but there were only 7 flights leaving all day.  Odd.
One of the flights was ours to Windhoek in Namibia.  Landing at Windhoek was an surreal experience because […]