FEAR FACTOR

 Tommy’s The Living Desert Tours

If you are ever in Walvis Bay, Namibia, you HAVE TO go on this tour!!! It was AMAZING!!! WE drove in 4x4s to the Namib Desert Dunes- more specifically Dune 7, the highest Dune in the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world.  (How can you prove it’s the oldest desert in the world, yeah, yeah, yeah, ivan had this argument started way before you did.)  The dunes were beautiful, a sight to see all on its own, but this tour was The Living Desert and they were all trained to fins animals in the desert they drove us through.  We reached the desert and had to stop for 20 minutes to deflate th tires so we could Indiana Jones-style it through the dunes!  We caravan through and five minutes he stops the 4x4, runs out and grabs this lizard he nicknamed the Ferrari.  He told us about, held it in his hands and then asked-“Who wants to wear it as an earring?”  And so, fear factor begins. 

I zoomed/cropped this photo so you can see his hysterical little body holding onto my ear for dear life.  It didn’t hurt, it was just creepy and made me squirmy the next ten minutes.  It was AWESOME!!!!!!

Because I know my mother and her friends are the primary readers of this blog, I refrained from posted the snake pictures, and just so you know, it was poisonous and I did not wear it as a necklace to go with my lizard earrings.   

The cutest creature we saw was the Palmetto gecko!  It’s nocturnal and the guides spotted a light spot in the sand and knew that’s where they were sleeping.  The dug them out of the sand and he was scared and so cute J 

A while later, Tommy spotted chameleon tracks (oh yeah…those,) put the car in neutral and ran into the desert to get the chameleon.  We were planning on stopping in 4 minutes at a chemical restroom area inserted into the desert to break for a bit.  And so, he let the chameleon ride in the car right in between us.  He got irritated and started hissing and although he wasn’t facing me but his little chameleon eyes were looking backwards at me.  So Tommy held it the whole way. 

Somehow, he convinced me to be brave again,  so I kneeled down and held the chameleon and he ate a worm off my arm with his long sticky tongue!!! It was Crazzzzy!!