About noon we reach Keetmanshoop. We have a break for an hour, but we don't just want to hang around. Apart from the fact, that we wouldn't be able to visit Keetmanshoop. Though the village is not very big and there aren't many sights, the imperatorial post office and the church of the Rhenish Mission are worth visiting anyway.

The right decision as we will see later: The bigger part of our group have only drunk something or at best ordered little food. And moreover, this day we spend most of the time sitting in the bus anyway, so that we haven't hardly any occasion to walk around.

Then the journey goes on towards south. First we drive over the well-asphalted B 4 till we are near Seeheim, then over a dusty unpaved road to the Fish River Canyon Park. Off and on, we see a springbok or a caparison jackal flitting over the street. However, more striking are the ostriches, which move over the rocky landscape, sometimes alone, sometimes in big groups.

We also see a short section of the Lion River and Naute Water Supply Dam, which contains just little water now in winter. Only a wine farmer, who grows his vines behind a high windbreak hedge, isn't annoyed by that. He hasn't to worry that his wines couldn't get enough sun. Otherwise, the landscape hasn't much going for it. Vacation, only in the south east of Namibia, is obviously a challenge.

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