The beach!!! I love the beach and I was under the impression that the coast of Namibia would be nice because the weather on the interior was beautiful. But when we got to Swakopmund (a town with lovely German architecture) we found it to be cold, gray and quite foggy. But it was the beach none the less. We played some frisbee and I thought about swimming, but the water was quite cold. We went to a small natural history museum with some really cool exhibits on the rocks and minerals of the area, insects and other animals, and some beautiful old furniture that reflected the tastes of the German colonists. After looking at a campground that despite its waterfront view, literally looked like a graveyard, we decided to splurge a little bit and camp in a hostel. We ended up meeting up with our Austrian friends from the first day totally by chance and hanging out with two girls that were studying abroad at the University of Botswana that we had met a few days before in the Cardboard Box. We also talked to an elderly gentlemen (probably about 60 or 65ish) that was biking from Cairo to Cape Town. Although the hostel’s cat peed on my tent, it was nice to sleep on grass instead of the hard dirt that we had found everywhere else. It was also really nice to cook on a real stove and eat something a little more fancy than some starch variety mixed with canned and some fresh vegetables - which is what we had been eating every other night.
The view from the road we took to enter the town. We had beautiful weather, and then we drove into the town and it was suddenly cold and miserable.
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