We spent the rest day in Windhoek. It is a beautiful city. Very modern and western in its appearance. It was hard to imagine that we were still in Africa. The city was so clean.
Now that I got that out of the way...
It was a tough day. The climbing, off road of course, was really tough! I could eek out only 10-12 kph. That is really slow. The road was loose stone and dirt. There were areas of sand that added an element of fun as well. But the scenery was awesome. You came over the mountains outside of Windhoek and a huge valley appeared. It was rounded by mountains. The landscape over the ride today changed. At first there was a good deal of short trees and bushes. As the day went on the vegetation thinned out. It thinned out to the point of almost no vegetation.
These are the mountains that surround the valley.
This is the daunting part of the day. The road just seemed to go on forever....
The road does not look bad, but I'm sure the picture does not do justice to the difficult of the ride. Ten kilometers per hour is about 6.2 miles per hour. I would be happy with that.
ReplyDeleteI had a guy come up behind me as I was climbing a hill and said that he would fall over if he rode that slow. I looked down and saw that I was going 2.9 MPR and I was struggling to get that. 6.2 is not bad.
Relax and enjoy the ride, take plenty of pictures when you stop to rest and just keep moving on. You will make it.
Ray
Its beautiful in a dark, desolate kind of way :)
ReplyDeleteHating off road just makes you want to conquer it more, right? Enjoy the moments! Easier said than done, I know but what an incredible journey!