comes Amazingly, the envisioned since about 3 months 4 October as the day of departure towards us faster than expected. Exactly, that is, on the previous Friday, we had a cozy evening at the farewell Weidebornweg with many friends; we now see not only for a while. A splashy event with many good mutual desires, Kolsters remained to 3 clock in the morning. The last week was - along with a short flying visit to the Oktoberfest - and remove the clean our apartment, so that in our absence, Bad Homburg experimentation Desi and Konstantin Stechow have it properly too.
Always at the last minute
At 3:10 was then downhill after hours of back-and-herpacken but already by 15 clock so that - optimized time - Erik recently second into car jumps and that too without shoes. If this continues either until you see us in a year or even again in 2 weeks ... because we missed all 'our flights etc..
Thanks Stefan Ries we arrive at the Frankfurt train station safe. With 86 kg and thus slight excess baggage, which we have to lose until the departure, but for now it's all the train to Munich to Marc, Alex, Jacob and Anna, where the last day will be spent before departure for the most beautiful autumn weather. We find it almost hard to leave on such a day for a long time.
After several Umpackaktionen Aussortierungsarien and with the help of Alexandra and her sister Monica, we can reduce our luggage to two bags and throw off 15 kilos of ballast, including allegedly important hard-copy books by Erik, unnecessary drugs and excess socks stay at home. What is a good tax collector for the surrender of course not his Mont Blanc pen (we'll see how this pen just like a backpacker trip ...)
light late because we thanks to Marc's longtime Munich local knowledge Drive past the airport exit, we arrived at the Munich airport with just 71.6 kilograms baggage (2 large backpacks, daypacks 2, 3 Kids Backpacks, an A4 pocket, and a Krackser and a stroller) and 58 minutes before departure.
take before we Borden on Opi Eberhard, who accompanied us quickly decided the first 3 weeks in Namibia. With happy children as we boarded the plane last. Many passengers rolled their eyes when they saw our sweet girls and thought, "I hope they go" flight Monster "past us ..." Alexia reinforced that image perfectly by almost cried sitting out, "Daddy I have to pee" countered, but Antonia and sent her "I'll do anything you smile" on the seat back to the guests behind us. The overnight flight was easy, all the children slept sovereign and the passengers had to put their prejudice, at least for this flight shelved.
Windhoek greeted us early in the morning at just before 7 with a glorious sunrise and almost perfect landing. Passport control and auto output go without problems, but with appropriate Namibian cosiness.
The award of the day is 40m after the airport exit towards first property in Windhoek by Nicoletta with a slightly reproachful voice: "And now where are the animals?"
In "Casa Piccolo" we are greeted with a hearty "good morning" and super hospitality. Thanks to the kids we get a good English breakfast, but without Bacon & Egg. Also, the terms of rooms is earlier than expected CARRIED, the three girls seize during which the only three chairs at the pool and make Once an extended nap. This asks the 8 year old son as she sees the full horror home his mother: "What's going on here, so many children?
goes after extended sleep break, in the City, but we in the first dynamic Miss start immediately. Frankfurt usual standards, we were traveling at 45 but quickly moved to the city core over. Windhoek is a nice little town with a mini-city core and much German influence, not just to identify the river "Bismarck", of "Louis-pharmacy" and various typical German street names such as "King Street". The Spectacular has not yet being exploited the same, but we will end the month for another 2 days to be here.
To the delight of our girls soon found themselves a bar with the essentials: "CHIPS" and there was ketchup ... and thus was the world final restored.
Some Impressions
"calm before the storm" - Munich 04.10.2009
"What's going on here? Windhoek 7.00 clock early arrival - Overnight Flight
Big relief: The first portion of chips-Windhoek 05/10/2009
A little bit of culture: Christ Church of Windhoek, 5.10.2009 Nicoletta and opi
6.10.2009 - 8.10.2009 - social studies first hand
Now it gets serious. Time we set off. Our first day with the left, gravel etc. imminent. On the C1 in the south we go to Rehoboth without major complications in the Kalahari desert. Our sporting Caravelle - held in fashionable white - with the "Mass party man" on board leaves us confident on the first gravel roads which are in fact some getting used to and we Jimmy, a experienced tour guide, whom we met at Casa Piccolo, may be only right to do that faster than 80km on gravel roads much sense if you want to make sure that no one wants to end up in the sand. The landscape moves past us marked by a breadth and dryness of the eye, our yet to get used. Much oncoming traffic, we do not have the more respect if it has any driver comes to meet again a big truck or car. Occasionally, a group of people sitting on the roadside in the middle of nowhere, which put the children always carried away with the question: "What are the here? Here there are nothing. "Even donkey carts and pony carts fully loaded with passengers or boxes pass on our way. We still kills the heat, if we take a little break from our air-conditioned Luxusvan. After about 280 km or 4.5 hours we reach the entrance to Anib Lodge in the Kalahari Desert. Wherever you look: sand, hot reddish sand, which represents the typical feature of the Kalahari desert, which is now classified as semi-desert. Very friendly will be greeted with a glass of orange juice at normal English and German. As in our first property is the Massmann-clan divides again 2 double rooms with a rollaway bed. The breakdown is as follows: women and men separately, ie if one of the girls is merciful, then they'll stay sometimes with the father. But that's the exception and definitely improved. Opi ... Eberhard is as well as so out of it.
Our first Safaris inspire us all and we get a first impression of the animal diversity of Namibia. The girls - mainly Nicoletta full move - the tour will find exciting in the open and prove best 4x4 eagle eye spotting the animal, make a telescope unnecessary. Antonia's vocabulary is limited to "Animal," but we are happy and their eyes seem to be at least not bad in the distance. Nicoletta takes all "game drive" with so that they total of 3 times in the Kalahari desert and go on tour, the 6:00 am tour full of enthusiasm ride takes you. Above all we see around the lodge Anib springbok, oryx, hartebeest, eland, zebra and wildebeest. Various animal species graze peacefully next to each other and make one realize how little animal friendly but many zoos. Each night safari is crowned with a sundowner on the crest of the sand dunes. Stylish with karieter tablecloth and a selection of various alcoholic beverages we enjoy the sunset in the red desert. The girls build sand castles in the red sand and slide down the dunes. And if you look closely at the nature of listens, one hears no non-natural sound that has something .... The time between the safaris will be spent swimming in the cold pool or in the hammock .... Nicole gets a little education. Antonia has struggling with new teeth and can be seen not only at their best ... fries are very popular and the girls lead very clear in the rank list of typical Namibian children's menu ...
Oryx herd in the Kalahari desert
Springbok in the Kalahari desert
Wildebeest herd in the Kalahari desert
A Culinary German lesson makes us our "teachers being" highly
The Bad Homburg-sandbox can unfortunately not keep up - Sundowner in the Kalahari desert
8:10 .- 10.10.2009 - Canyon we come from - the southernmost tip of our tour
Ca. 400km are our day's work for today. How much gravel as much road? We can surprise us. As it is for decent German, every 2 hours, the driver is changed, ran every adult must go. We drive through Mariental (approximately 13,300 inhabitants) - means in the language of the Namaqua dusty area and it also happens. Nevertheless, there is a savings and we fill the Water - supply and continue to gummy bears .... was not more to do here. Keetmanshop is the next location which is not too much larger. After a number of inconsistencies), where parked and in which the "numerous" coffee shops - is it a huge choice-break should be made, we still get our coffee
We slowly the landscape "stony". Again and again, the streets - of course gravel surrounded by huge red-colored rock formations. Around 17:00 clock we reached the Canyon Lodge near the Fish River Canyon. Our next overnight stop. We are located in a mountain camp
admittedly very comfortable self-catering camp with a fully equipped kitchen. "A rectangular courtyard with a small courtyard is our new home for the next 2 days. Ariane can not miss it and runs - despite a round of cold-in this setting are wrong, which is characterized by red rock formations, prairie grass and quiver trees.
flowing down the Fish River Canyon is proving somewhat difficult. Despite some training sessions in the Taunus region today are not all the girls for a walk in standing heat and loneliness to inspire and the entire event falls a bit into the water .... If any wonder ... We are working on it ... Our picnic stop place far formerly glistening sun instead and then we turn around ... Opi Eberhard is still finished the tour and told us afterwards. Nevertheless, an impression of this largest canyon we got. In the afternoon we go swimming a round. The location of the pool sprängt the conceptual ideas, surrounded by colossal rock formations, it looks out of the pool a little cold on the prairie ... gigantic. The Baths of Kronberg and Königstein can not keep up because, unfortunately. So you can treat yourself and nothing else ...
The 3 girls Tri0
eigendlich The girls make themselves quite well. The everyday annoyances such as "the mine", "you're Kak ..."," no, my mommy "to run again on normal ... no more, but unfortunately, not less ... So we are quite happy eigendlich, have also regularly irregular overnight change easily accepted, especially the two big right. Unfortunately, we are all still angegrippt what successively through all the "small-group members" of the Massmann Party is passed and which led, despite enormous aid kit already to a doctor visit to Alex and Ariane in Swakomund. Antonia had to fight the first day both with teeth, climate change and flu, what you / and then we did pretty well to create. But everything will be fine .... Alexia eats like a horse, and strangely enough, Nicole is currently the largest Pinzchen. Fortunately, there are spaghetti without all ... Antonia yapped each day and her body is not exactly temperate.
see your: also south of the equator, the concerns remain the same ....
One problem we have been able to solve not yet ... Alexia has earned an ice cream for a dry diaper .... but there are only "Solero" and vanilla ice cream is not for the girls is acceptable ... and therefore will prefer to dispense entirely with ice. But here we are yet to find a solution.
nine hours' drive banana "- the hole mill is greeting - or 540 km gravel road in one day - 9.10. 2009
What to do with the kids, when 600 days km are on the program?
much paint, read, tell stories do not. Thus, try out the 540 km gravel roads out the best and reinvent "the banana down" ever so slight hill every call goes through the car, "banana" - according to a carousel in the hole mill - an idea of Nicoletta. Unfasten is quite time allows, look also at times by the passenger or "taking hand" the tax is approved ... and to guide all stakeholders of distance from Trott. Erik's iPhone with various children's songs are doing an important contribution to the pastime. The kids take it left amazing and also on the Geruckel the gravel roads they seem nowhere to have as much as we do. The landscape is absolutely fascinating, and moves slowly from the semi-desert to steppe to desert, which we reach with our destination in the Namib desert. This time, a larger - but also very nice lodge at the foot of petrified dunes. Very nicely, but animal safaris are not in the foreground
The world's best dirt roads (Quote of the Namibian Tourism Association)
Shopping Center in the middle of nowhere between Windhoek and Mariental
practice makes perfect
More to come ... and we are out of the bus again - after our departure from Johannesburg hear from each other until then, it let you go well. Best wishes your men and 5 mass Opi (Eberhard Lewinski)
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