First stop - White Lady. But en route we found some Herero selling traditional dolls alongside the road. What a colorful sight.
We arrived at the site for the White Lady in the Brandberg. OF course it is not that easy - you have a walk of 2.5 km from where the vehicle park to tshe actual site. Due to my poor planning we arrived in the mid-day heat. So after an hour of clambering though the valley, and crossing the river 20 times (Robyn kept count) we finally laid eyes on the White Lady. Well it is actually a black medicine man, but was probably painted white for ritual dancing. The white lady is the central figure in a set of bushman paintings on the wall of an overhang in the valley. After walking an hour there, and an hour back, we headed further south toward the Spitzkoppe.
We hit closed roads and had to detour, so we arrived at Spitzkoppe just before sunset. We found the stone bridge at Spitzkoppe, and used this stop to call our 4000 km mark (we were in fact at 4003 km - close enough!) This scenery makes for impressive pictures, and Damon was spitting mad that he had such limited time because we got there so late.
Moving on, we arrived at our accomodation (Sandfields guest house) in Swakopmund at about 8pm.
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