About Me

I'm a 27 year-old from Los Angeles, California, with a BA from Tufts University and an MSc in Primate Conservation from Oxford Brookes University. My passion is primates, so I like to spend my time in remote areas traveling, researching, and rehabilitating apes and monkeys! Email me directly at AmandaClaireHarwood@gmail.com Also check out my other blog http://www.AmandaHinArgentina.blogspot.com/

Sunday, June 12, 2011

NAMIBIA!!

I got it in my head to go to Namibia about one year ago. I have no idea why, but I went to Borders and bought a guide book and read it cover to cover. I didn't even have plans to come back to South Africa yet, but I was interested in Namibia, a country most people have never even heard of. Then I tried to convince anyone and everyone to meet me down here when I was done at CARE, but no one could. I hoped beyond hope, these things never work out!, that someone at CARE would want to come with me. One day I had mentioned it to my friend Adam, and he immediately was in, and then wheels started turning. A few weeks later our good friends Dan and Mandy, on a complete whim, decided they were coming too. Plans were made and come June 1st, I said goodbye to the baboons and off we were going to Namibia. Adam, Dan, and Mandy were my three best friends at CARE. We would always sit together during mealtimes and laughed more than anyone else there. I had met Dan on my last trip to CARE, but Adam and Mandy are new friends. Adam is super sweet and funny, Mandy is crazy hilarious, and Dan is awesome and super knowledgeable about the bush (helpful when we got to Etosha). We knew we were in for a great trip.

Dan and Mandy left CARE early in the morning on the bus to Johannesburg, while Adam and I took the afternoon flight. We met up in the Jo'burg airport, then split again to take different flights to Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. Namibia, which is twice the size of California, has only around 2 million people living in it. It's a safe country and great for road trips.

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