Southern Giraffe, Erindi

Flight KL575 was a long one. Eight and a half hours into the overnight flight it makes a ‘pit-stop’ in Luanda in Angola. During this hour long stop the flight crew change hands and most of the passengers left. It was then back into the sky for another two and a half hours before finally landing in Windhoek at about midday on Saturday 2nd November. The wave of heat hit me as we stepped off the plane and walked from the runway to the terminal. This sensation is always something that puts a smile on my face wherever I go in the excitement of landing in a foreign country and what the trip has in store. Fortunately retrieving our luggage went without a hitch and we were greeted by Siggi in arrivals. The next leg of our journey started straight away with a four-and-a-half-hour drive from Windhoek to our first destination for two nights; Swakopmund. We got our first glimpse of wildlife with Common Warthogs and Southern Giraffes on the roadside! Hardly surprising that an early night was welcome on our first night in the country.