Kalahari Johan
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2 Friends, 5.5 days available only for this trip. 4100km. What a trip
My adventure riding friend Ian van der Berg , have been dreaming about a bike trip to Namibia for the last 2 years. In 2016 I visited Namibia with my family in our 4x4 , so had a good idea of where and what I would like to show him on such a trip. During December Ian really started nagging me to do a trip. Both of us being business owners with me really having limited time to go on bike trips, started talking about March 2017 for a trip to Namibia. Yet every week in March started filling up with either family or other business responsibilities until I had to call of March as a no go for a trip to Namibia.
It was the second week of February during peak hour traffic on a Monday morning when after phoning my wife and getting the all clear with no other responsibilities for the upcoming week , that I phoned Ian and asked him if it would be possible for him to get his bike prepped and ready to leave in 2 days time for his dream trip to Namibia. Both our bikes still needed new tyres and in a haste 2x scott stearing dampers was also ordered and fitted by Off-road cycles in Pretoria
Ian only dropped of my bike Tuesday night at about 9pm , after which I still needed to pack my bike.
We arranged to depart the next day at 1pm from my business in Primrose
820km later whe arrived in Upington at 9pm and went looking for a b&b for the night.
Next morning departed Upington at 6am after a 5am breakfast at b&b , direction Nakop border post
Next stop was Canyon road house for a quick snack
Then Fish river canyon
The we headed still North to Seeheim hotel for late Lunch
We wanted to still make it to Beta but eventually run out of time and energy and found a nice camp for the night on a farm about 80km before beta
Friday morning started bright and early
Breakfast at Beta and then arrived at Sesriem campsite. After a quick visit to Sesriem canyon we arranged a lift to Sossusvlei as bikes are not allowed to go there.
Saturday morning started heading back south in direction of Aus. But first we had a meeting with the famous sand roads of the D707
Eventually made it to Aus. After having a quick lunch there was still enough time and we decided to do a quick dash to Luderitz and Kolmanskop
Kolmanskop was unfortunately already closed so we could only get pictures from a distance
Headed back to Aus to camp for the night
Sunday morning decided to travel via Rosh pina to Noordoewer back into RSA
Stopped for lunch in springbok and then pofadder
At Pofadder I noticed Ians rear shock was bent
We slowly limped on to Augrabies. About 500 meters before Augrabies campsite the rear shock snapped. BMW germany engineers happened to be following us into Augrabies as this happened
They immediately offered assistance in transporting Ian's bike back to Jhb
BMW germany was busy with cooling testing of the new M5 in the Northern cape. They strictly prohibited us of taking any photos of the test vehicles
Monday morning I had to ride home alone for the second time on a trip with Ian (previous trip he fell and broke his shoulder at 20km/h on West coast)
This was one amazing trip.
We managed to do and see so much in such a short time.
I would encourage all Adventure bike riders to at least experience Namibia once in your life.
You wont be sorry
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My adventure riding friend Ian van der Berg , have been dreaming about a bike trip to Namibia for the last 2 years. In 2016 I visited Namibia with my family in our 4x4 , so had a good idea of where and what I would like to show him on such a trip. During December Ian really started nagging me to do a trip. Both of us being business owners with me really having limited time to go on bike trips, started talking about March 2017 for a trip to Namibia. Yet every week in March started filling up with either family or other business responsibilities until I had to call of March as a no go for a trip to Namibia.
It was the second week of February during peak hour traffic on a Monday morning when after phoning my wife and getting the all clear with no other responsibilities for the upcoming week , that I phoned Ian and asked him if it would be possible for him to get his bike prepped and ready to leave in 2 days time for his dream trip to Namibia. Both our bikes still needed new tyres and in a haste 2x scott stearing dampers was also ordered and fitted by Off-road cycles in Pretoria
Ian only dropped of my bike Tuesday night at about 9pm , after which I still needed to pack my bike.
We arranged to depart the next day at 1pm from my business in Primrose
820km later whe arrived in Upington at 9pm and went looking for a b&b for the night.
Next morning departed Upington at 6am after a 5am breakfast at b&b , direction Nakop border post
Next stop was Canyon road house for a quick snack
Then Fish river canyon
The we headed still North to Seeheim hotel for late Lunch
We wanted to still make it to Beta but eventually run out of time and energy and found a nice camp for the night on a farm about 80km before beta
Friday morning started bright and early
Breakfast at Beta and then arrived at Sesriem campsite. After a quick visit to Sesriem canyon we arranged a lift to Sossusvlei as bikes are not allowed to go there.
Saturday morning started heading back south in direction of Aus. But first we had a meeting with the famous sand roads of the D707
Eventually made it to Aus. After having a quick lunch there was still enough time and we decided to do a quick dash to Luderitz and Kolmanskop
Kolmanskop was unfortunately already closed so we could only get pictures from a distance
Headed back to Aus to camp for the night
Sunday morning decided to travel via Rosh pina to Noordoewer back into RSA
Stopped for lunch in springbok and then pofadder
At Pofadder I noticed Ians rear shock was bent
We slowly limped on to Augrabies. About 500 meters before Augrabies campsite the rear shock snapped. BMW germany engineers happened to be following us into Augrabies as this happened
They immediately offered assistance in transporting Ian's bike back to Jhb
BMW germany was busy with cooling testing of the new M5 in the Northern cape. They strictly prohibited us of taking any photos of the test vehicles
Monday morning I had to ride home alone for the second time on a trip with Ian (previous trip he fell and broke his shoulder at 20km/h on West coast)
This was one amazing trip.
We managed to do and see so much in such a short time.
I would encourage all Adventure bike riders to at least experience Namibia once in your life.
You wont be sorry
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