West side tour

The training centre closed for a week, so I Carpe Dium-ed and went camping with a couple of friends. This was the last opportunity I will have in my time here to see anything of Namibia, and with such a photogenic country, I had to make the most of it.
The trip was very fast, it was nearly 3000km in 7 days, so it was one day travel, one day look, next day travel etc.
The trip started with a visit to Etosha national park, then on to Swakopmund, a costal town, then down to Sossusvlei, home of the largest sand dunes in the world, if you want a beter idea of where these places are I have once again included GPS coordinates for Google Earth on most shots. if you copy and paste them into google earth in the 'Fly to' tab, it will take you to the exact location.

 Abuid on the Etosha Pan 18°55'48.50" S  16°29'19.21" E

 Ostrich and Orix 19°02'14.35" S  16°20'26.67" E

 

Quizical Hawk Etosha (same location as above)

 

Springbok on the Etosha plain 19°00'32.88" S  16°21'47.06" E

 

 Desert trees on the road from Swakopmund to Sossusvlei 23°18'38.04" S  15°30'39.56" E

 

One of the many amazing dunes at Sossusvlei, there is a car in the shot, most of these dunes are  humdreds of metres high.

24°44'06.79" S  15°17'23.45" E

If you use the exact coordinates shown above, I have put the marker about half way up the front sweeping dune where the people are in the shot.(yes they are there)

 

 We were here for sunrise, so long shaddows were inevitable, Caroline was on the other side of this bowl dune, I have included both of our GPS coordinates.

Caroline 24°45'36.15" S  15°18'03.28" E

Me 24°45'41.15" S  15°17'52.49" E

I was trying to get a bit of footage to show the dunes being created by the wind, if you look at the beginning of the vid you can see it a bit, you can also see how much hard work it is climbing these things, great view, it was worth it. 

24°45'49.51" S  15°18'07.99" E