Namibia
In the wilderness of Namibia almost all of the roads are graded gravel tracks that have been hewn out of the landscape, faithfully following the contours and cambers of the ground that they were made across. This can lead to some very interesting driving that is alien to most who venture forth from the airport in Windhoek in hired Off Road Cars. The fate of many a hired car is to find itself sliding across the loose gravel on an off camber corner with an inexperienced tourist flailing at the wheel, which inevitably results in the car sitting on its side or even roof and the forlorn sight of wheels that continue to turn long after the dust has settled, hoping for a touch of the good hard earth.
Such an unfortunate fate occurred to one of the hire cars in our group some years ago. We were on our…
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