Today we left for the Namibian dessert at 5:30 to see the sunrise from Dune 45. It’s quit a bumpy 45 miles to the dessert. When we arrive at the foot of the dune, we start climbing the ridge to get to the top. Seems easier than it is! It was breathtaking, the view as well as the climb!! On top we just sad down on the dune enjoying the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen at 6 o’ clock in the morning! The red sand contrasting the blue sky, it’s amazing! Lou took lots and lots of pictures and after 15 minutes we started on our way back. That was fun! We ran down while our legs got sucked in up to our knees, it sounds like the whole dune is coming down while your running, fabulous! We had lunch at the foot of Dune 45. After this, we went 5 km into the dessert with a 4x4-wheeled pick-up. We were all standing on the back, holding on while the pick-up was going like 50 miles an hour on a very rocky and dusty dessert road. We got a tour through the dessert by a very humorous little Japanese woman who was living in Namibia for about nine years. She told us about the plants and animals living in the dessert and the techniques that they use to survive there with a small amount of water and food. For instance, she told us about beetles that stand on their head to catch the haze for water (headstanding beetle). We also saw the death vlei where a scene of the film “ The Cell” was taken. That’s is really something. In the middle of the dessert you see a white stretch with dead trees and no plants at all. The tour takes about three ours before we head back to the campsite. At four o’ clock we leave for the Sesriem Canyon. This is nothing compared to the Fish river canyon, but not less fascinating. The canyon is just a 15-minute drive from the campsite. The Canyon isn’t that deep, so you just go for a stroll in it. You can see history when you’re walking here, you can see that it has been there for so long and where used to swim fish, now birds make their nests. We stayed to see the sunset after which we went back to the campsite and enjoyed another well-prepared dinner.