Our last day in Swakopmund started with a coffee at the local coffee roastery, Two Beards Coffeehouse. They had some exciting flavors of coffee to try, including honey latte (can’t find menu to know exact flavor)… After breakfast and coffee, we headed next door to an Indian furniture shop that had some pretty neat stuff. Some of their main pieces seemed to be old-fashioned doors with intricate detailing. We asked about them; some doors were painted to make them feel old, while some were actually historical pieces.

Leaving the cafe, we headed back to Desert Explorers to try and get a camel ride in for Tim. His one request in Namibia was to ride a camel in the desert. I wasn’t thrilled about riding one again, but thankfully it was a better experience than the first one. Tim wanted to get into the experience and rented a shemagh to wear on his head during the ride. We waited a few minutes for our guide to return from his recent outing, and then it was our turn to load up. This time, the camels were wearing more of a saddle than what we experienced in the Lewa Conservancy in Kenya, making sitting atop the camel much easier. Even when the camel stood up, we felt less rocking movement and didn’t feel like we would come flying off their backs. Our camels’ names were Alaska, Moses, and Abraham.

The camel ride was a 30-minute ride, but honestly, that is plenty of time on a camel. After the first 15 minutes, we quickly stopped to pose for some pictures. Again this tour company knows how to save tourists money. The guide took Grant’s phone to photograph the three of us as a group and individually. He also told us that sometimes when he unties them from each other, one tends to run off. Thankfully, our camels stayed still (although that would have been entertaining). On our way back to the center, Tim’s camel took the lead and walked without guidance. Seeing how calm these animals were and how well they knew the path was impressive. When Abraham started veering off the trail, the guide quickly ran up to pull him in the right direction and finished the ride. The guide could even yell at the camel from behind and many of the times would be able to obey a command without needing to have the guide run up.

Once we completed the ride, we hopped off and headed back to town for lunch. Grant had been dying for some German food (Namibia has a lot of German influence), and we had previously asked the owner of Village Cafe for the best German food in the area. We found one nearby, and Grant was able to get his bratwurst and sauerkraut fix in. This mini lunch ended up being tasty! This was also when I found out in my email that my PA license in California was complete, so now I was an officially licensed PA!

As we had previously booked a slot for tandem skydiving for that day, we tried to contact the place to let them know that we would be canceling (Tim and I slept on it and decided we weren’t as excited now that it was getting closer to being real). It was hard to know the correct contact number, so we tried multiple different ones through WhatsApp and hoped the message would get through to them. One of the skydivers returned our message and said it was not the best weather for a good skydiving jump, so we weren’t missing out on much anyways.

We grabbed some things from the Airbnb and threw some laundry in the wash before heading out for our drive up the coastline to see some shipwrecks and the seal colony.