A night at the wonderful Bagatelle Farm

Leaving Windhoek was a challenge due to left-hand driving, filling the gas tank and then grocery shopping. We made a stop and found out Frank's pack was stolen. I continued to drive to Mariental while Frank was still in shock. We finally arrived at the cheetah park at Bagatelle. Our beautiful campsite had a small tree and a nice shower and toilet. Our next camping neighbor was at least 500m away. In Croatia they would place possible a 100 people here...

We then attended the cheetah feeding. Three cheetah males sat on hill looking at us. The animal keepers had thrown some meat to them while we could take photos. It was a very odd and fake atmosphere for me to see such majestic animals being reduced to the status of a domestic cat.

Our dinner was very special where we met the young boy Bjorn who wanted to show us the stars with an amazing telescope but was cut short due to a woman falling down and had suffered a severe concussion. But the dinner was fantastic!

Since we had a long walk back to our tent we decided to leave. They said we would lose our way but I assured them it would be ok. Then they warned us about snakes. I laughed as we took off. but they were right,the next day I saw the snake tracks and realize we should take more care.

When we woke up in our tent on top of the roof, we could see the sunrise shining over the red desert!!! What a mornoing start...