Fw: Ons Angola trip report.

Fw: Ons Angola trip report.
4 of 14 2009/04/06 01:03 PM
EO1232197) Surprise for the day was an Afrikaans speaking Himba from Windhoek
and many tweety birds – as we started calling al the Himba children shouting for
sweets, sweets, sounding like tweets, tweets.
Day 4
We are back on the road at 08h45 and visit the now almost famous Angola Welwitchia, and place our
specially prepared stones on the stone pile that we brought with from Windhoek. (A bit of a turn down
was that some people are turning it into a waste pile, and little did we know that we were still in clean
country) We reached the Arco Lake with its mud houses and palm leave roofs lining the edge of the
lake creating a beautiful sight, after this we had to cross the app. 200m wide now in semi flood river
feeding the lake, this didn’t pose any problems as it was very wide but shallow with only some mud
towards the end and comparing it with the “sinkpad” from the Welwitchia to here it was a breeze. We
arrived at Tombua, drew money at the BOB, filled up our water from the local municipality offices
underground water tank and replaced the battery (@ N$ 1 700-00 ouch). Thanks to Mr. Ressamo and
some locals who helped us during their lunch break. Tombua is clean but has a nasty fish smell and
after some nice photo opertunities in their harbor with old fishing boats lying in pain and decay we set
of to find a camp. There was also no diesel available. Be prepared for the little dune as you leave
Tombua, this one doubled our hart beat and by the behavior of the local kids I could see that we were
not the first ones to get stuck and give it another high revolution go. We set up camp at a little lagoon
just south of the first ship wreck and were not to far from 2 fishermen making a living on the beach.