{"id":346,"date":"2014-07-31T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ventanasvoyage.com\/africa\/?p=346"},"modified":"2014-07-31T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:03:31","slug":"back-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ventanasvoyage.com\/africa\/back-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Back into South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK&#8230; I know I&#8217;ve been a real slacker on the blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is we are doing so much and filling each day to the max that there just is not much time left for blogging and since we are camped out most every night we are not near cities with internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway we are now back in South Africa &#8212; fully first world&#8211; actually after every place else we have been it does not even feel like Africa. \u00a0Namibia was &#8230; interesting&#8230; basically a huge empty country. \u00a0Miles and miles of gravel roads connecting places that in themselves are interesting but driving between them is looooong and booooring. \u00a0 Namibia is the perfect place for a 200 mph airplane.<\/p>\n<p>The sand dunes at Sossvlei were awesome and the Skeleton coast was suitably mysterious \u00a0and eerie. \u00a0Pictures to come soon.<\/p>\n<p>We had an awesome time traveling with our friends Brian and Sarah from New Zealand and did all of Namibia together.<\/p>\n<p>Only two weeks left here.<\/p>\n<p>Rob and Dee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK&#8230; I know I&#8217;ve been a real slacker on the blogging. 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