Today we woke up at 5h30. Because we were sleeping at Sesriem Camp, we had the privilege to enter Sossusvlei at 6h to go and see the sunrise. We drove to Dune 45 and saw the sun coming up. We took nice pictures of this amazing view.
After this we drove to the car park where we had to take a 4×4 taxi to go to Death Vlei and Sossusvlei. On our way in the taxi we already saw beautiful dunes. The taxi first dropped us at a point where we could walk to Death Vlei. We walked through the dunes (again amazing views!) until we got in Death Vlei. It really is a death valley between the dunes. It was very nice to see. After we walked all the way back to the taxi point, the taxi brought us to Sossusvlei. We walked around and saw again beautiful views. Sossusvlei is really worth seeing! After enjoying this amazing place, we started our trip to Duwisib Castle.
Again we had to drive on gravel roads the whole time, what is not that easy with our car. Jan had to concentrate very well to avoid stones and holes. We were happy when we arrived at Duwisib Castle without any damage on the car.
Duwisib Castle was built by Hansheinrich von Wolf (Germany) and his wife Jayta. They married in 1907 and chose Namibia as there new homeland. In 1908 the work on the castle started (with material that came all the way from Germany). In 1909 the castle was completed. The couple only lived in the castle from 1909 until 1914. After that they went to England to buy more material to build more on their castle but because of the Great War they never returned to Namibia.
We visited the castle and there are still a lot of things left from Hansheinrich and Jayta.
We booked a camping site here but we are the only people. There is no power so it will be very dark when the sun goes down around 6h. We will make a nice campfire to keep us warm because we know it can be very cold in the desert at night.
