18 and 19 July

Over the next two days we drove another 300 miles north on rough roads at slow speeds, finally reaching Sossusvlei at lunchtime on 19 July.  This is an area of enormous sand dunes, rising up to 3000 feet in places.  As we got into the desert the going for the Landrovers became much tougher and we spent a lot of time in low ratio four wheel drive,   Our all terrain tyres, designed for mud and rock, were digging into the sand as we drove.  It was also very hot with temperatures well over 30 degrees centigrade, a stark contrast to the near freezing temperatures we experience each night at this high altitude of nearly 5000 feet.