April 21 Cape Town to Windhoek

April 21

Cape Town to Windhoek

We packed up early and spent the morning exploring the Table Mountain area, then returned our car to the airport and waited for our flight to Windhoek, Namibia. 

When we chose our Air Namibia flight it was scheduled to depart in the morning and arrive just after noon.  This appealed to us because we knew it would take awhile to get our camping gear sorted.   The noon arrival would also allow us a few hours of daylight for our initial drive from the airport.  

Well, Air Namibia contacted us just days before departure with a schedule change: the flight was re-scheduled to arrive after dark!  This was not ideal because we had been advised to avoid driving at night, and because we had some interesting plans for our first afternoon.  However, the vehicle rental people stayed late, spent over an hour going through all e camping gear, and guided us down the long, dark road towards Windhoek.

It was indeed late by the time we set up our tent and crawled into bed...