Mr. Leo has been traveling on the GLOVIS Cosmos for a long time. He should have been here long ago. But bad weather and other circumstances have delayed the trip, but now there is finally good news.
Fixed arrival time, now in Walvis Bay, 1 February 2024 at 20:00.
On February 2nd the ship will be unloaded and on February 3rd, we are told, Mr. Leo will be presented to customs and we can take him over.

In the meantime, we went 200 km north and looked at the seals, explored the beach at Henties Bay

In Walvis Bay we rented a car and extended our lease with a very friendly employee named Sebastian.

We then drive about 300 kilometers south with the aim of visiting one of Namibia's main attractions, the Sossusvlei in the Namib Naukluft National Park.
Driving 300 km of gravel road in one go is a challenge. But at around 6:00 p.m., after a successful journey, we reach the cozy lodge where we have rented a room.

The next morning at 7:00 am we set off towards Sossusvlei, which is 120 km away from here. The parking lot can only be reached with four-wheel drive vehicles. Luckily we have some experience driving in deep sand,
Otherwise we certainly wouldn't have made it.
But a little adrenaline in the morning is definitely good. Especially if you are one of the few who have managed it with a vehicle like ours.
Then there is a half hour walk to get to the real attraction.

The Sossusvlei ( ⓘ / ? ), also Sossus Vlei, [1] [2] is located in Namibia and is a beige salt-clay pan (" vlei ") surrounded by sand dunes in the Namib , which only carries water in rare years of good rain. Then a lake a few centimeters to several meters deep forms for a short time in the vlei at the end of the Tsauchab. Sossus means "blind river" in the Nama language. "Blind" refers to the fact that after heavy rainfall the Tsauchab River, which comes from a mountainous region in the interior and flows towards the Atlantic , ends or silts up near Sossusvlei in the sand dunes of the Namib coastal desert - about 50 km from the sea. The area is part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park .


After all this effort, we need a snack, which we take under one of the very few trees. If you enlarge the picture, you will see the tree in the background
Spotting an oryx with its steep horns, watching us suspiciously.
Will running away be enough?

Here it is in large size, it stayed lying down nicely.
Toldi says that's what he advised him to do, otherwise there would have been trouble with him. It's good that we have Toldi.

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