Quadbiking at Swakopmund

Riding quad bikes through the dunes in Namibia was on Ben’s list of things to do before we even left the UK – and I’d psyched myself to doing it. Ben seemed surprised that I wanted to and was pleased that I was going with him. I was quite nervous about it – I thought I’d be a chicken and be no good – but after half and hour or so I got the feel of the bike and started accelerating through the Ben’s and urging myself to go higher and higher up the dunes. We were part of a group of about 12 – but all of them were going sand boarding for the second half of the morning. That left Ben and I with a whole hour to ourselves, and a couple of instructors, to explore on our own. It was so much fun being a smaller group, it made us feel like tiny specs on such a vast and spectacular landscape. I was so hyper afterwards, proud of myself for getting so into it and loving the buzz.