Hobas Campsite, Fish River Canyon,Namibia to Fiddlers Creek Camp, Orange River ,South Africa- Friday 4th March

After a particularly hot and restless night be bugged out for the relatively short 173km drive to Orange just over the border in South Africa .

Past the scenic canyon drive

A lone Quiver Tree in the desert

We were driving through the township of Noordoewer which is along the river to be greeted by an amazing farming display of table grape growing in the desert. They grow earlier than the grapes anywhere else so they are quicker  to market and at a betterprice. There was hectares and hectares of grapes under management 

We stopped at the Spar supermarket which was on the owners property ( which I assume he owns the franchise too) then out through the workers township spread over the desert

Then onto the last stop in Namibia which was at the Engin servo that houses a Whippys as well. After going through the red tape of ordering some food which should be relatively easy we use the wifi to catch up on the last few days. It's also our last chance to spend all our Namibian dollars as they are not accepted in South Africa- go the biltong!!

it's now time to leave Namibia and drive 1 km to the boarder- the same briefing by Amanda as when we entered into Namibia- we will go first and then you come through 15 minutes later however you don't know us.

All goes well at the customs and immigration posts in Namibia then a short 1 km drive through the unattended boarder gates to do the immigration,customers and police check at the South Africian border which also goes very smoothly whilst I wait for the processing and eat my steak pie from the Engin stop that took 45 mins to organise!

Only a short 8km drive to fiddlers creek campsite as we pull in just before 3pm to get changed and jump into the orange river to cool down- I did start to swim over to the Namibian side without a passport or entry form though.

We had now driven down most of the Namibian coast line into South Africa (the orange line)

we set up the tent about 6pm as the warm breeze came in from the river 

Until we were hit by a sand storm about 15 minutes later that  rolled in from the mountains

The girls took shelter in the cooking hut opposite our tent site whilst I had a few quite vodies catching up on the blogs .Jan caught up with some guys from an Overlander truck that had pulled in just before the sand storm

Forty minutes later all was normal again

Post our dinner we went down and had another dip in the river to cool down from the stifling heat. We both slept outside for the night rather than the tent as it was somewhat cooler.