Southern Africa is not Africa

Hello from Namibia!

Well, I've started my tour through southern and eastern Africa. Kenya, as you know, is going through some problems right now, but I'm sure it will blow over by the time I reach there.

From Ghana, I flew to Lagos Nigeria, then Addis Ababa- Ethiopia, then Jo'burg- S.Africa, and finally Cape Town- S.Africa. Basically, I did a box around Africa: From West to East, then South. Pretty Cool!!

There's not much to say, except that culture shock has gotten the best of me. I was totally surprised at the European-nes of Cape Town and Namibia. This has a lot to do with the remaining populations of Boers. I visited a township in Cape Town, which is where the apartheid government sent the blacks and coloureds (the latter being asiatics). The people now live in extremely small houses and shacks. Quite sad, actually. This is where the Hausa people live...that famous "click language".

We climbed the sand dunes of the Namibian desert, they were REALLY beautiful. We also visited a former diamond mining town that is now being reclaimed by the desert. The houses of this ghost town are filling with sand and crumbling ever so slowly.

I'm in Swakopmund now, adrenaline city. It's a VERY German town. We spent new years here, and I was going to do some adrenaline sports, but the weather is SO shitty, and I haven't been able to do anything!!

Well, that's it for now.

Wishing everyone a VERY happy New Year

Love, Niv