{"id":7755,"date":"2023-11-08T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T06:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cap-travel.ru\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2023-11-10T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:20:44","slug":"%d0%bf%d0%be-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b8%d0%b1%d0%b8%d0%b8-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bf%d0%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cap-travel.ru\/en\/blog\/2023\/11\/08\/%d0%bf%d0%be-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b8%d0%b1%d0%b8%d0%b8-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d0%b8%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bf%d0%b5\/","title":{"rendered":"Across Namibia by pickup truck. Part 1."},"content":{"rendered":"

After 16 hours of two flights by Ethiopian Airlines with a two-hour break in Addis Ababa we finally landed at Windhoek airport. And now I am going down the ramp to the hot concrete coating. <\/strong>From the Moscow slush we got to the capital of Namibia, which is a state in the south of Africa. It greeted us by a heat up to +40\u00b0C, an unremarkable landscape and a faceless airport building.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So our fortnight trip across one of the most interesting countries in Africa has begun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having rented <\/a>a big ISUZU pickup truck from the GONDWANA company in the morning, I went to the local MTS mobile operator office to buy a SIM card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long may such a purchase take, in your opinion? 10 minutes? Half an hour? Hour? You're still wrong. All in all, it took me 1 hour 20 min. I realized the fact that no one was in a hurry here last night, when a taxi, which had been called in advance, actually arrived half an hour later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Africa...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first few hours I was getting used to left-hand traffic and right-hand drive. I turned on the wipers ten times instead of the turn indicators and drove into the oncoming lane five times. However, having overcome 500 km along the B1 highway, I had finally requalified myself by the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n