After Twyfelfontain we are expecting an uncomfortable journey now. Originally we still wanted to visit the stoned wood. But the sun has set down long ago to make space for a pitch black night. Apart from our buses spotlights there is hardly any light to see. And if there is some light, it’s an escaping vehicle that causes a big stir trough which Jayjay could hardly see anything.
Fortunately, there are not many curves in this area, so that the driver can at least keep the lane very well. But the route is similar to a big dipper. One dip is put in a line to the next an Jayjay has to expect an animal in each shadow-hole.

After we have passed the stoned wood and our guide explained us that we will have to get up early the next morning for driving back to the wood, few of us want to leave out the stoned wood. But of course that is no question for us. So many of us explain immediately that we definitely want to see the Petrified Forest. As a result Sydney suggests to bring the depart forward for another half hour. For us it’s okay. After all we are here to see as much as possible from Namibia.

Instead of dinner, we enjoy tow ice-cold Rockshandy at the bar this evening. Afterwards we finish the evening in our room’s upper floor with something to nibble an candlelight. But we go to bed soon. Because although we spent most of the time sitting in the bus today, we realise that this can make you very tired, too.

Only the next morning we look a bit round Gowati Lodge. All in all it consists of twelve bungalows that are all covered with straw, just as the main building.
The entrance area we find very nice. There’s a little pond in which grows some kind of reed. A few meters further there is the restaurant that is very open. That means for us: at breakfast an ibex keeps us company. Of course there is also a pool. But we’ve had this before…

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