A Tale of Two Rivers

It was the best of times, it was the BEST of times! :)

On day 3 of our trip we played along the South African / Namibian border. We had a great camp site, and had a day split between two very different rivers.

The morning began with a canoe ride (float) down the Orange River (it's green!). It was, of course, very hot, but we had a great time floating along, looking up at a very different landscape from Southern South Africa. Here, everything was brown, and there were desert mountains. One of our river guides (who had been the camp sites' bar tenders the night before) said the area is known as the "Cowboy Country" because the landscape looks like all the old Westerns (movies). And it does. It was very Arizona-esque.

In the afternoon we found ourselves at Fish River Canyon. It's the second largest canyon in the world behind the Grand Canyon. It's beautiful and quite large, and we enjoyed a nice walk along the crater and then sat at a lookout point for a beautiful desert sun set. Life is good!

Mere & Kathleen