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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The joys of a day trip to sandwich harbour as part of your Namibia Safari

Meeting other travellers with the same aim in mind in a café, heralds the start of a fabulous day. To be informed by a tour guide, everyone gets in a specially designed 4 x 4 vehicle, and so it all starts.

You drive past the Walvis Bay Lagoon some spectacular BirdLife will be considered. Passing the salt continue to mine the journey to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Here, due South and head for sandwich Harbour turn the vehicle. When low tide, the Guide directly on the beach with the crashing waves will drive barely a stone's throw away. Once past the defined fence, you are now correct in the Namib Naukluft Park. Sandwich Harbour is located on the most Western side of the Park, and is the only marine reserve in this park. Further along the coast, you could Cape fur seals and the occasional Black-backed Jackal can see. In General, if such a review, is the leader to stop and discuss in detail what is observed.

Closer to sandwich Harbour enter the correct dunes. Usually at this time the leaders looks for a suitable place to lunch food. The guide will set up lunch while you some time you have to track your legs. Tables, white linen tablecloth, plates and glasses await you on your return. The ride goes after a light but delicious lunch.

The reason for the ride in the dunes is, get a nice elevated spot, from which you can observe the total space sandwich harbour or lagoon. This fantastic view gives you unreal sense fly, see your environment while on a 50 meter dune. The lagoon with its light blue water, white crashes on the beach and the orange sand dunes almost vertical way in the sea are the surf as the wave, offers all an endless supply of pleasure for your eyes. If some birds are lucky, some with the thermal designs from the dunes, fly, to stay in the background of glide.

Be on the way back a few more dunes crossed and go through, to give you a real sense of how it feels to drive in the dunes. Exceed the salt-works in the vicinity of long Dune, you can have luck, be some Springbok or Strauss on the ground.

Although it is almost the end of the journey, the area will fascinate even you. Not with the same way, be back to take a look at the Kuiseb Delta East you. The last stop will be on the dune overlooking the salt flats. This bird's eye view shows you the different evaporation ponds, green and red color, with white salt in the large Kontrastn.

The day ends, if you back to the coffee shop to stop. Amazed, you will notice that a full day be gone. For a long time yet this experience will remain in memory. Sandwich Harbour is a place that will fill with complete ease of mind and soul.

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