Track 09-MAY-16 Windhoek-Namib
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 260.69 mi
- Elevation gain
- 9,859 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 13,468 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,750 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 6,750 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 19 hours 52 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4427
- Uploaded
- May 11, 2017
- Recorded
- May 2016
near Academia, Khomas (Republic of Namibia)
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Just 30 kms from Windhoek the "pistorros" of Namibia begin and a little later we make our first stop in an ostrich farm with which we almost finished a clean peck for getting so close. The first Thompson gazelles also appear ... this promises. By the way when we rented the cars they warned us "when you get to the tracks you have to open the trapdoors of the pickup box" ... what happened? that someone forgot and our food was buried (gajes delicio).
Then the emblematic poster of the "Tropic of Capricorn" appears, we are here ... photo (or rather photos) of group ... up, down, in the center and "pa in" of the cars. Next stop the ghost town of SOLITAIRE in which they say that the best "apfelstrudel" in Namibia is taken (and we can attest to that) ...
And finally the entrance to the park of the Namib, in which we had to touch a "bad milk" at the door because he even protested that the car of the person who was talking to him as a group guide (myself) was not going in the first position but in the last. To bad weather, good face and ahead that awaits us one of the mythical deserts of the planet with its main attractions just around the corner: the dune 45 and the Deadvlei.
Then the emblematic poster of the "Tropic of Capricorn" appears, we are here ... photo (or rather photos) of group ... up, down, in the center and "pa in" of the cars. Next stop the ghost town of SOLITAIRE in which they say that the best "apfelstrudel" in Namibia is taken (and we can attest to that) ...
And finally the entrance to the park of the Namib, in which we had to touch a "bad milk" at the door because he even protested that the car of the person who was talking to him as a group guide (myself) was not going in the first position but in the last. To bad weather, good face and ahead that awaits us one of the mythical deserts of the planet with its main attractions just around the corner: the dune 45 and the Deadvlei.
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Hola, muchas gracias por compartir la información, me gustaría saber si podéis decirme cuanto tardasteis en llegar a Solitaire desde Windhoke, me refiero a tiempo de conducción real, es que necesito hacer un calculo te tiempo de las rutas. Gracias
A nosotros nos llevó 5 horas desde las afueras de Windhoek hasta Solitaire.
Si necesitas algo mas no dudes en pedirla, un saludo.