Sunday, September 13, 2009

Greetings From Namibia

Hello! I have been traveling since Wednesday and I am still not to my final destination (that will be happening later today). Right now I am in an Internet cafe sort of thing in Oshakati. Caitlin says "Whoop!" by the way. I asked her if she had anything to say, and that was what came tumbling out of her mouth.
So far Namibia has been really nice. Caitlin picked me up in Windhoek then we traveled up to the town of Otjiwarango. It's really nice there. We went to go see the Nile crocodiles that they have there. It's called a crocodile ranch where they breed and kill crocodiles for meat and leather. It was so cool. I really faced one of my biggest fears on that adventure. They have about 40 adults and 200 babies. Caitlin and I got to hold a baby croc. That's right I've touched a shark and a crocodile. We also watched them being fed dead chickens. The chickens were whole and all that and you could hear their bones crunching as they were being eaten. We spent the rest of that day traveling to a place that I can't remember the name, but it was a peace corps volunteers house. There was a peace corps get together their. And now today, more traveling!
Right now, in the north it is very sandy and flat and has lots of palm trees. In the south (between here and Windhoek) it's got a lot of mountains. It's like flat for a while and then there are just these huge mountains sitting in the distance. And there are more trees, not palms, I don't know what they're called. Besides crocodiles I've also seen oryx, kudu, a giraffe (but it was in captivity) and lots of goats, cows, and dogs.
I look forward to the rest of my stay here. Perhaps I will find the internet again at some point.

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