My last look at Cape Town, real, from the Table View, how my mood at that moment: fog, that you could not see the city across the bay, and a sunken ship, and corroded iron, before my eyes (I will missed the Talgo Madrid-Irun above). I do not know, would have preferred a little more cheerful scene: something like the mayor saying goodbye as I gave my weight in slices of ham (has risen somewhat in recent weeks: the good life). Saying goodbye to a place that has been so happy ever onward, more when it is felt that it might not go back.
Then began Kananga trip, a route that I have agreed with the Spanish agency specializing in travel to Africa. Be with 15 Spanish, again, in a truck that leads to the Victoria Falls Bath has been a reality for me in return. Last night, Conversación en la center la scene en Paquirrín, Belén Esteban and Torrente. Nothing against those kinds of conversations, but I had done my area geeks: Malema, Terreblanche ... The truth is that the guys are nice and I have hit a slap in the face hispania. The atmosphere is fun and begins to create a true partnership. Phrases like "the world has moved around several times", when asked if he had ever operated a gas station near by smoking; or is there a bum out there?, before the massive drop in passengers that occurs at each pit stop to pee and we could smoke up shoelaces, help.
But the really curious, for my, of this first phase of the journey is what you can change an idea when you walk on it again. Right now I'm on the border with Namibia, morning finally left South Africa and I get into one of the places on the planet with fewer inhabitants per square meter: its 1,8 million people and a dimension that is almost double to Spain. I'm back to do the same first safari I did back in April, the Kalahari South African.
Be with 15 Spanish, again, In a truck that takes us to Victoria Cataracts, it has been a bathroom of reality that awaits me in the return.
Besides the great memories of those days, where we ate the miles with smiles and enthusiasm (is missing), what has changed is the landscape. For example, have mutated the colors of the desert lands, April, by green dotted everywhere, born of rains. Population Calvinia, a small town inhabited by the Afrikaners entrenched in their ideological trenches, I thought then it deserved full throttle with the car and forget about it and now I've found, at least, a hotel and a restaurant full of charm, el "The Hantam Huis Complex". It's actually a kind of historical oddity, full of old family photos, dolls and mannequins that are scary and phrases written in Afrikaans ultrareligiosas. Worth.
Then, I returned to the Kalahari. After passing through Kruger in May and July, I thought this was a joke safari where you see oryx, gazelles, ostriches and little else. Summarize what I've seen this morning in a dune landscape full of charm. Two lions, male and female, cortejarse; a group of hyenas devouring the remains of an oryx; three cheetahs walked from the road; five lions lying, vigilantes, near a water tank and two attempts of three cheetahs hunting a gazelle. For those who have not ever done a safari, travel there, We have been told Xavier, guide, where you do not see a single lion and cheetah, less hunting. In order, that what for me was like a pond of red dunes retreat but has become an explosion of wild animal life.
The only downside of this principle has been, as always, my thorough preparation: I do not bring a sleeping bag for cold or, course, a flashlight. What if I only sleep in two deserts, in tent, where the temperature can be close to zero. The first night I froze a little shop, just stopped feeling chest, legs and hands (could move their eyes), which has caused an avalanche of solidarity of my colleagues that I have left a jacket and two stolen airplane blankets (is good for travel Spanish). The downside is that there are many beers that disappear from the refrigerator truck and on our first camping guide collected, counted, 21 butts thrown on the floor.
In order, entered ago Namibia... When you have connection and continue to count time.
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