Welcome to part II of our African Road Trip
We're here in Namibia and we are starting somewhere really cool
Really curious
It's a European style castle here in the desert in Namibia
And the reason this castle exists...
Is because it was built by these two people
The wife, Jayta von Wolf was a millionaire from the United States
And her husband Baron Hans Heinrich von Wolf
He was in the German army. They got married and she told him she wanted a castle in Africa
And since Namibia was a German colony, he had been, and said, "Ok, let's build one in Namibia."
It was built in 1909
It's called Duwisib Castle
They didn't last long here because World War I started
He left to go fight and died in France
She didn't want to live alone in a castle here in the desert
So she went back to the United States and now it is a museum you can visit
Now it is being renovated but if you come in the future you can sleep here and spend the night in a Namibian castle
Alright, we have an Oryx right here
We've seen others and when we stop to take pictures they always run away
And you can see two more over there, far away, but when this one saw us it started to come towards us
So I don't know if it is used to humans, but it's right here
Honestly, these horns are kind of scary
They look like they could really do a lot of damage, and...
I try to move away from it to take some pictures but it just follows me
It just follows me, it's crazy, this Oryx is such an impressive animal
It's a type of antelope
Really amazing to this animal so close
Like I said in the last video, it's really an adventure
When you travel in Namibia
And no trip to Namibia is complete without coming here to Sossusvlei
This landscape you can see here, I think everyone has seen before
It is one of the most famous, not just in Namibia, not just in Africa, but in the whole world
Specifically, we are in the part known as Dead Vlei
And the trees are here because water used to come to this area
But the dunes shifted and now there is no water
And the trees all died here
This landscape is such a strong contrast because you have this white clay, the red dunes...
The really blue sky and all these dead trees
We are in the Namib Desert and it is the oldest desert in the world
Older than the Sahara
Older than Atacama
I don't know how they can say which desert is the oldest, but it's this one
The redder the dunes, the older it is
And the name, the Namib Desert
Is so important that it is the reason the country is called Namibia
Now we're climbing a dune which is named Big Daddy
That point up there is where we're going
It isn't that far but since we're walking in sand it is pretty difficult
But we are going to have an amazing view
Here next to us you can see Dead Vlei where we just were
Alright, we finally got to the top of Big Daddy
And after climbing a dune like this with a view like this there is only one way to go down
Let's see...
This is pretty great...
Two hours to go up...
And I only need about a minute to go down
Yeah.. that was great
If you're in Namibia...
You have to do it
My wife is up there somewhere but you can't really see from down here
And after running down that dune, as you can imagine...
A little bit of sand in my shoes
Now we're at another dune, known as Big Mamma
We're still really close to Big Daddy
But what is interesting is this lake here
It doesn't usually exist, this is the first time since 2011 that there is water here
So for about 11 or 12 years
Without being able to see this lake in front of this dune
We are really lucky to be here now
We're going to finish part II of our road trip...
Here in Swakopmund
We aren't going to talk about Swakopmund because we are going to do a video about this city
I hope you enjoyed seeing all these amazing parts of Namibia
And I'll see you next time from another part of the world