My Namibian Road Trip- Part I

When you are told that you are going to be taken to Victoria Falls in Zambia and all you have to do is pack your things and get into the car, you will most probably do as told. The plan was to drive down the scenic Caprivi strip (a.k.a Okavango strip) to the Zambian side of Vic Falls considering Zimbabwe was having issues of some description. And a quick stopover in Botswana on the way back to Windhoek. If a depressed look could have won me an all-expenses-paid-for-holiday to three African countries, I started to wonder what else I can tease out of the deal? If you haven't already noticed the inconsistency between the title of this post and the first paragraph, well things didn't work exactly as planned. The catch: three members of the traveling group were Indian passport holders. Processing time to get a Zambian visa: minimum three weeks. Considering three weeks is usually the extent to which your employer lets you slack off from work, we had to drastically change plans. Instead of hopping across the border we decided to explore the Namibian countryside.

So we traveled for six days in our red sedan to three different destinations.

# 1: VingerKlip and Twyfelfontain
#2: Etosha National Park
#3: Swakopmund

It did help that we had Bob Marley, Beatles, Dylan, Bollywood and me singing along to my wonderful collection of Tamil songs to keep us entertained.