Our African Travel Adventure (Part III) - Through the Night and a Day in Namibia

After a 12 hour bus trip to upington, we got off for half an hour, just enough time to strech
our legs, move our luggage and grab some nice traditional african food, KFC. hungry enough to
crush a 20 pack myself. the food hit the spot more than ever and we were straight to our next bus
for another set of 12. this one again was not so bad at all. through the night from 7pm to 7am
slept as much as possible, and crossing the Namibain border at around 12 was intresting enough.
the security virtually non existant compared to crossing into the states, but at least, its a
stamp on the passport. theres really not much else worth mentioning about the bus ride because
we basically woke up at our destination. (which funny enough was on Rev. Micheal Scott St.)
and we departed the bus. But now its 7 am. and were in the country of Namibia. what to do? i should
mention that we were in Windhoek the capital, so it was a big city with malls, banks and shopping
centres. just at 7 nothings open. especially not in africa. we found a park close enough
to the bus station, and strangly enough it was one of the most beautiful parks i have ever scene.
rivaling central park, (not as big obviously) but almost as nice, for life of me i couldnt
figure out why. We set up camp near the Koi pond. we played cards near the gazebo, i took a nap under
a tree and read my bible in the garden. and after all this, i knew exactly why this park was
the way it was. City Workers, dressed in blue overalls. it seems as tho just about every Namibian
male either is a security guard outside of every store, sells newspapers or phone cards on the
street, or works for the city. and the park was swarming with them. So starting to think i really
like this country, we left the park around 1 to go the mall and get some lunch. we were each given
N$ 70 (namibian dollars) for the whole day.so for lunch and dinner to buy for, raf and i found
a grocery store and this is when i was SURE i liked Namibia. we bought: a loaf of bread (N$6),
jar of peanut butter (N$6), 2L bottle of coke (N$7), big bag of doritos ($N8), Box of MIlo cereal
($20), 2L of milk (N$20), and 9 apples (N$2 each). so for under 90 Namibian dollars each we had about
7 bowls of cereal each for lunch and 11 peanutbutter sandwiches to split for dinner, with
pleanty of snacks for the bus. so for all of that food, the N$90, that comes to about $10.50 USD.
this is africa. with the rest of our day, we went to a sketch interent cafe, picked up our luggage,
and played kick ups outside the bus station. best of all we were there early, so that meant
first dibs on final bus ride.