Day 4, 2011/05/05
Today is when our trip truly starts. To night will be our first night of camping.
I am awake at first light, and have a lovely bath, shit and shave. Not sure when I will be able to experience that amount of luxury again.
We have decided to take the dirt road to Xai-Xai. It should have thick sand in places. Something David and I want to try out with our bikes fully packed. And boy were we not to be disappointed. All of 6 km into it and, David and I decide that we need to take arrest stop, with the excuse of needing to take pics! We were both exhausted! Knowing we had only another 35 odd km of this to go. Well, in the end and, after numerous 'photo taking' opportunities, we managed to do the 70 km in just over 4 hours. Needless to say, I now know why people kiss the tar road in this adventure bike trips! Our over night camping was on Xai-Xai beach. Old but nice and clean campsite. We were the only people there for the night which makes me wonder how these places survive? Anyway, we were both so tired that we were in bed by 6pm. Nothing like sone sand roads to sap the energy out of you.
Day 4 Pics
Hi Precious, the girls & I are looking at your pics: fab ! Eish the thick sand on Day 4 ...looked like it would have been SCARY to ride thru ...brought back Namibia trip memories Angel . Mwah Joni
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