After days of camping, it felt like paradise to put our heads onto bunk bed pillows and have a bathroom in our room! The joys of the small things in life!
The town of Swakopmund is quite a bustling village where the desert sand meets the ocean! Homes line the beach front, but not in any massive size, as most would expect. The town certainly takes care of their roads and buildings, as everything was very clean and inviting – even the grocery stores are ‘spic n’ span’.
Being that we were still technically in the desert, a few of us took off to go sandboarding in the dunes about 15 minutes away from Swakopmund. The old-school VW busses parked at the base, a bunch of us crazy snowboarders and others giving their first go at strappin’ a slide ride to their feet gathered around a mass pile of gear, strapped it on for a size check, and then up the dune we went… climbing, and climbing, and climbing some more. Water bottles were left along the way so we’d have some spots to rehydrate as we climbed the dunes over and over again! At the top we got the briefing on waxing our board (EVERY TIME YOU TAKE A RUN!) and then sanding in the wax… strap and go! Main difference… you have to keep your weight back – not forward, like in snowboarding – it was pretty sweet to take to some turns down the dunes. They even built a jump at the top for the adrenaline junkies – I took one attempt at it, but it was a tad too much for me! I did, however, take to some sweet lie-down, face-first glides down the dunes at 59 & 70km’s/hr!!!!!! You just lie on a slick-side science fair style board and off you go… with a radar gun below and a crowd waiting to cheer your wipe out from above… what better way could you spend a morning?! After de-sanding and chillin’ at our favorite (from yesterday) coffee shop, we took off for the after party video of our sand-board adventure at Cape to Cairo’s bar… that was probably the highlight of our day!
The town of Swakopmund is quite a bustling village where the desert sand meets the ocean! Homes line the beach front, but not in any massive size, as most would expect. The town certainly takes care of their roads and buildings, as everything was very clean and inviting – even the grocery stores are ‘spic n’ span’.
Being that we were still technically in the desert, a few of us took off to go sandboarding in the dunes about 15 minutes away from Swakopmund. The old-school VW busses parked at the base, a bunch of us crazy snowboarders and others giving their first go at strappin’ a slide ride to their feet gathered around a mass pile of gear, strapped it on for a size check, and then up the dune we went… climbing, and climbing, and climbing some more. Water bottles were left along the way so we’d have some spots to rehydrate as we climbed the dunes over and over again! At the top we got the briefing on waxing our board (EVERY TIME YOU TAKE A RUN!) and then sanding in the wax… strap and go! Main difference… you have to keep your weight back – not forward, like in snowboarding – it was pretty sweet to take to some turns down the dunes. They even built a jump at the top for the adrenaline junkies – I took one attempt at it, but it was a tad too much for me! I did, however, take to some sweet lie-down, face-first glides down the dunes at 59 & 70km’s/hr!!!!!! You just lie on a slick-side science fair style board and off you go… with a radar gun below and a crowd waiting to cheer your wipe out from above… what better way could you spend a morning?! After de-sanding and chillin’ at our favorite (from yesterday) coffee shop, we took off for the after party video of our sand-board adventure at Cape to Cairo’s bar… that was probably the highlight of our day!
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