Namib Naukluft Lodge — Fat Chicken Meal

Honeymoon - Day 26 & 27

Leaving Swakopmund, we headed towards Sossuvlei. Before going to Sossuvlei, we stayed at the Namib Naukluft Lodge for a night.

At first there was paved road...after a while, it became gravel roads. Our African massage returned, only that it's moderate and not as strong as those in Kenya and Tanzania 😅 It was hot in the afternoon...Can't imagine how it would be in Summer ☀️

At one point (lost track of time in the middle of the bumpy roads that looked more or less the same), Mr. B caught a sign on our left - it read 'Tropic of Capricorn'!!!

This was unexpected, as I didn't actually know we would cross this "line". Having lived 2/3 of my life in a city where it's so close to the Tropic of Cancer, I've never been to anywhere that marks its existence...(Now that I think about it, we're living quite close to the Equator now, and have been to places that are very close, if not on the Equator, but never saw a sign like this...Maybe need to do some research...Hmmm...Next challenge would be the Arctic circle?! 😁)

The journey to our destination of the day, Namib Naukluft Lodge, was otherwise uneventful...with plenty of dust, gravels, rocks and sparse grassland to see on the way.

In the middle of nowhere, the Namib Naukluft Lodge stood in front of a small rocky hill. The lodge was small but it had uninterrupted electricity and water (not entirely sure how they did it).

Here's a video showing 360 degree view of the Namib Naukluft Lodge.

Since we only booked the room 2 days before arrival, the staff at the front desk wasn't able to locate our booking...and at first we couldn't connect to the WiFi there...

After an hour finally it's settled and we were shown to our room. It had 3 single beds, a bathroom with shower and a terrace.

It's still early so we explored the area around the lodge a little bit.

We had dinner at the lodge as there's no other option. The soup and dessert were served to us, and the rest was buffet - some salad dishes at a corner of the restaurant, and pots and pots of stew around the fire outside. They served rice, bread, potatoes, veggies and meat. For meat, they had chicken, beef and oryx.

All those kudu, oryx etc stew in Africa made me raised my eyebrow, and I thought how double standard I was because I've never felt that it's a problem to eat chicken, beef, pork, lamb etc...