Our last night at Mowani campsite, it poured! We sat in our rooftop tent and watched the rain come down, blowing into our camper windows, trying to listen to a Bill Bryson book (rain was too loud to hear it), wondering what all those dry riverbeds and gullies where going to look like in the morning. Well, we found out. Full. The Aba Huab river, previously dry and known for its elephants, was flowing. We didn’t realize that until we drove the dirt road for a bit and got to the river crossing. Nope. We had to turn and go the long (long!) way to our next destination. Not Swakopmund, which was now too long a drive for the day, but instead Uis, a small mining town in the Erongo region.
I found Uis a pleasant surprise. I had expected just a basic camp for a quick overnight, but we found a garden/coffee shop that doubled as a campground/cottage rental place. It was nice and comfortable. We had private ablutions, finicky hot water, a kitchen sink, and a small table and chairs, all under an overhang of dried palm leaves, even a shelter for parking the rig (well, partially parking it–the rig never completely fits under anything once the tent goes up). And I got a cappuccino in the morning! I’m glad we got the chance to spend the night there.
And, by the way, it poured there, too. Back up into the tent we went with our drinks and Bill Bryson book.