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I don’t know what I’d been expecting from Namibia, but it wasn’t that it would be so easy . I felt as though I had rocked up at an airport in Germany rather than a lesser-known country in Southern Africa. Windhoek’s Airport was clean and modern; everybody spoke English; we bought a SIM card and exchanged our money with zero hassle; picked up our rental car within a few minutes. “Damn,” I commented to Dave. “I feel like we’re in the U.S. or something.” We threw our backpacks in the boot of the car, loaded up Google Maps on our phone, high-fived for good luck, and made our way out into the wildness. Just 12% of the roads in Namibia are tarred, and we were fortunate to be kicking off our road trip on one of the best of them. Less fortunately, our 2,500 mile road trip would be spent driving along 2,400 miles of gravel. I just hoped our tyres would manage to stay inflated over that time. There isn’t much inform...

One of my favorite campsites of all of the time we’ve spent Overlanding in Africa has to be Spitzkoppe in Namibia. Spitzkoppe is nicknamed the Matterhorn of the south, or ‘pointed dome’ translated from German. The highlight feature of Spitzkoppe are the rock formations that spring up high out of the earth. The crown jewel of the formations is Spitzkoppe mountain which comes to a sharp peak high above the flat desert landscape. In addition to the main Spitzkoppe mountain, there are a few clusters of the massive rock formations. We set up camp on the base of one of many rock formations for the night. On our 2014 Overlanding trip with Acacia Africa, we arrived in Spitzkoppe, Namibia on a nearly full moon. The air was clear and cool without a cloud in the sky. Even with the moon being full, the sky was packed with stars. Normally the moon reflects light within the moisture and particles in the air making it hard to see the stars. However, the sky around Spitzkoppe was...