Caught in the Middle of a Flashflood in Kaokoland, NAMIBIA // EP.54
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2023
- We are so happy to be finally going to the desert in Namibia.We are in the northwest of Namibia, also called Kaokoland. This is one of the wildest and least populated regions in Namibia, the Land of the Himba.
We are going to try to get from Opuwo to Orupembe through the D3707. the weather was beautiful when we started until it wasn't anymore. Big showers pass by our route discharging water in the whole valley. And the place turns into an ice rink and we start struggling to get through. This challenges our Offroading skills, big time.
We were not aware of the magnitude until later. And realized we were in the middle of a Flashflood. We had to get out and drive fast to cross the Hoarusib River before it got too big. Three river crossings in the Kaokoland, three rivers to walk and check before crossing.
An adventure in Namibia. Enjoy the Ride!
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We, Kai & Irati from Germany and Spain, are currently on a full-time Overland journey. We quit our jobs, our apartment and left Germany mid of March 2022. We traveled all the way from Germany to Namibia, and had amazing experiences for the last year. Follow us in season 2 where we will be exploring the Middle East and Africa!
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Incredible episode.
Namibia looks like an incredible place for overlanding.
Bluelandy really got a workout crossing all those rivers and dealing with the mud!
Good thing you have a Land Rover!
Namibia is a paradise! And if you come in the wet season, you have a chance if seeing Etosha green and rain in the desert like we had! The bluelandy had a serious workout with all that drifting! So happy to have a Landy, yeah 💪💪💪
Not sure if you realise how lucky you were with the rain but in many trps to Kaokoland I have never experienced so much water. Its a true blessing- And a really good video for those of us who have been there or live here. AWESOME.
We do! We were really shocked when we arrived in the valley. The sky was blue all the way from Etosha to Opuwo. You could see how long it had been dry! Btw others would tell you we were the opposite of lucky, but we agree with you, for us we were at the right place at the right time. 😅😱
Fantastic drone footage! Loved this episode! All the best!
It would be a pity not to fly it in such an event. The views from the air always give you a better understanding of the situation, specially in Namibia, where everything is massive!!😅
Nice Champagne!
Thank you Darrin!! As it happened to you in 2020, we were lucky to witness this live, insane and grateful to have experienced it and also captured it. 🤗
So spectacular and nerve wracking! Loved this video!!! Thanks
It was indeed nerve wracking. We wanted to show our view and the whole unfolding of the flashflood as raw as possible. Glad you enjoyed the ride! Thanks for commenting 🥰
Insane scenery ... excellent editing and as always, not at all jealous!
Thank you again! We had a blast even if it was tricky and nerve wracking. Sounds contradictory,but it's the best way to describe it. You need to see this place LIVE!!
That is some amazing footage of the water runoff. Drone shots show it to perfection👌
It would have been a pity not to fly it! The place was impressive in itself 😱
Great stunning photography and scenery! The Defender looks so at home in this environment!
Thank you so much! We had fun capturing this once im a lifetime moment! The Landy rocks in such scenario!
Excellent driving - must have been a wonderful experience!
Kai was doing really good even though the Defender was like dancing on ice. Once in a lifetime experience yeah 😉
@@Thebluelandy My wife and I are really enjoying your overlanding - keep going! Joseph & Madri (Cape Town).
Great episode and amazing scenery. So good to see your Defender coping with everything!
Thank you, oh yeah I put that car in a lot of places but I’m still amazed what the Defender is capable of
Amazing driving ,in some very tricky conditions.Also fantastic drone shots.
Kai did amazing! The bluelandy was reacting more like a sports car , than a 4x4 🙈 thank you for you comment, always grateful!! 🤗
Other people have died doing these stupid things you did.
ery enjoyable and interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for your comment! It was also both things in Kaokoland! See you around :)
Wonderful to share your experience with you, and great photography
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoy it
Immagini e avventura strepitosa, equipaggio e Land sempre all'altezza. Complimenti ancora una volta e, sempre buona strada ai nostri due grandi viaggiatori!
Grazie mille! Ci piace allontanarci e provare la sensazione dell'avventura. Sono così felice che ti sia piaciuto.
Thank you so much! We like to get away and experience the feeling of adventure. I'm so glad you liked it 🤗🤗
i like Namibia
Incredible...
Thank you for watching!
Good adventure 😀 Most tourists fear the dry season, that they will die. But it is much more difficult during the flood, yes 💪
If we would come again, we would come in the wet season, 100%. Even earlier! It is beautiful 😍
Great episode! We have just come back form this region and it was spectacular. I look forward to the next episode.
This region is spectacular, glad you went there, it is one of our favorite places of all time 😉 hope we can deliver in the next episode!
Amazing play in the park
It was fun but also a bit tense 😬 😂
Absolute adventure, thanks for sharing!!
Thank you, it’s a pleasure
❤ amazing episode
Thank you ☺️
Thank you ☺️
Incroyable et merveilleux !! Hats off! Super bravo and thank you for the magnificent images.
It really makes me want to go there !
It is in our top of places to Overland to. In the next video we show it more in detail! Thank you Laurent 😊
Wow, what an amazing video! I love it ❤
Absolutely!!
Recommended for your inhouse stereo....GNOSSIENE NO 1 by Eric Satie (classical Spanish guitar....assuming it hasnt shorted out from rain).
Everything from Satie is a masterpiece! Check this video: ua-cam.com/video/56h_R4dXFS8/v-deo.html we used Gymnopedie no1! let us know what you think :)
Awesome video again you two . Loved all the colors of the evening skyline . And what a spectacular over landing destination . Thanks again for sharing your wonderful journey with us your over landing friends . Cheers from Steve Stott in Sutherlin Oregon U.S.A. :) :) 🌍🍻😁👍🏼
Hey Steve, the colors where mind-blowing. We took many pictures and could not believe how beautiful they turnout to be . Kaokoland, it's one of those places, one needs to visit at least once in a lifetime, if not once a year 😂😜
@@Thebluelandy ..😁👍🏼
Beautiful video, great filming. What a country.
Thank you so much for your comment and support. Glad that you enjoyed it! Namibia rocks!
Wow! The drone footage of the water spreading like tree branches is so beautiful! It's mesmerizing!
It was amazing, and we had to take the drone out to see it from above! it turned out to be exactly that, mesmerizing :O
You made very interesting tour in areas you followed
further informations and you visited where majority interested in
well informed. GREAT. I'm in Church today I might say, "HAPPY SABBATH"[sda]
Thank you so much for the comment and the support. We will try to continue making great videos!
Kaokoland always dry wow so much water glad you ok thanks for sharing
Yeah, everything went well, despite the challenge. We were lucky to see it live and enjoyed it later from a safe place.
Love the way he’s holding his shorts up so they don’t get wet 😂😂 so funny.. Cool vid you’ve got yourself a new subscriber..
You do what you have to do haha! Thank you for your support, see you around!!
Beautiful
Thank you
that was proper sketchy! Beautiful place, tho.
It was! a great mix of "wow, that could turn pretty bad", "it looks amazing!", " drifting is a hell of fun", " we should get out of here, now" hahaha
you are fortunate to see Kaoko like this with rain, I have only seen it dry, would love to be there when the rian comes. Looks like fun! I think i saw you guys a few days ago, we were on our way back fron Tanz to SA, Cheers!
Yeah! it was unexpected, and we think we were just lucky. I would say to everybody to try to go there in the wet season. It is breathtaking. I think is not possible you saw us, (spoiler alert) the bluelandy is on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! or let me say, hopefully you didnt see the landy, that would be really concerning. Have a nice trip!!
@@Thebluelandy hahahaha! Then it wasn't you yes hahaha. I hope I catch the rainy season next time
It is nice to see you finally met Bear (not sure about Grizzly) and Frenchie. Was always hoping you guys will meet. If you go to South America I hope you meet Next Meridian too :) - have a great trip ahead (if even in a TD5) ;)
Hey Thomas, yeah it und as great to meet Steffi and Bear, sadly we missed Leigh.
We’ll see what happens, first the car needs to arrive we’re already having 2 weeks delay and the container is not even on the boat
Where are you shipping to? Container delays are common. We had an unplanned 4 weeks in Cape Town waiting for our contaner to arrive from Europe. It made a big hole in our trip.
Beautiful drone images. It's a pity you had to hurry.
Thank you, the place helps ;) yeah , but it was a must, we didn't know how bad it was going to get ...
Wow so extraordinary. It appears to be sooo remote. Just wondered if the Blue Landy has a winch for extracting you from obstacles? Also seems you are getting very economical fuel consumption? Great work and beautiful videography…(-;
It is really remote, and it is and we say in the title, wild. It is one of the last really untouched places on this planet. The only traces you find from humans are corrugations. No winch, we decided against it (too heavy and too expensive). We have driven 50.000 km, and we always were able to get ourselves out of travel with the rest of our recovery gear and most iof the time winch would not have helped, as in these slippery paths or in deep sand in Saudi Arabia. Our consumption is really good, we average at the moment 10L/100km. Thank you for your comment and support!
I warned you .. .. .. .. Namibia is very different and it will get hold of you and just never let go. Just go, I know you will love it there - wait till you get to the Namib !!
Watched GrizzlyNBear's latest video and guess who they bumped into in Cape Town ? Glad you guys met. Keep well and go slow !
Henry, you are soooooo right. Namibia holds you forever, it is just incredible and everytime you think you have seen enough, it surprises you with a gem. It is and always be one of our favorite countries for many reasons. Episodes coming up!
Lovely video once again you are very brave, you have to be,myself I would have had to have a winch,fitted just for peace of mind, thanks for sharing, from Steve near Chester England 🏴 where the Roman's once lived.
Unfortunately a winch is more of a jungle tool and in the situations they found themselves it might not have helped.
On the other hand I do live on the Western Coast of Southern Africa that is almost the same as Namibia and have a winch fitted.
@jacqueshickley33 no jungles where I'm from, but we do use,those,types of extraction methods, every day in our line of work. 👍good luck.
In that situation, you cannot stop, need to keep on going to get out of trouble! The best would be to go in convoy, but we normally travel alone, so we need to be careful 😉
lucky, lucky and lucky 🍀
Out of all different perspectives 😳
Hahahah. Yeah, we believe ourselves lucky, as a flashflood is not something one gets to experience everyday. Also lucky to be able to get out and see the beauty of it all, without major issues!
See Kylie 🎶 Minogue
Enjoy your stay in Namibia, from there where to, Capetown?
Thank you so much!! Namibia is one of our favorite countries ❤️ from Namibia to South Africa, until Jbay and then to South America. Check the channel for more!
small 4x4 free tip.. if you get stuck you do not turn your steering wheel unless you absolutely have to....
Thanks for the hint!
I believe there are two options on this topic. There is the theory to not move the searing wheel to not ask more from the already struggling tires.
And on the other hand there is the theory that you should move it to allow to search for grip….
I guess both technics do not work in all situations but in others they do. So you gotta try what works when.
Sehr schöne Landschaft.
Da wären wir jetzt auch gerne unterwegs, leider muss ich nächste Woche dienstlich nach Mannheim, wie schrecklich.
Gruss aus Deutschland, wo es derzeit ziemlich trocken ist.
Hahah so schlimm ist Mannheim nicht! Man muss nur wissen wo man hin gehen soll!
Ja, die Trockenheit beobachten wir von hier auch mit etwas Sorge
@@Thebluelandy ich mag grosse Städte grundsätzlich nicht. Wir fühlen uns auf dem Land deutlich wohler.
Das Thema Trockenheit wird uns zukünftig ordentliche Probleme bereiten!
River crossing during the rainy saeson in Namibia is all the time a problem, especially when you are alone. When was it? We enjoyed a green Namibia, also in a Landrover, in 2022: ua-cam.com/play/PLcFlXvdfVd6hT_cyXy1Oq3X-PbqS_SrWE.html
This was on the 29/03 this year! The last showers over the region! I would choose again the wet season if I would come back.
Den ganzen Tag so durch's Gelände fahren zu müssen muss unglaublich anstrengend sein.
Danach schläft man Nachts bestimmt ziemlich gut.
Es waren ganz tolle Aufnahmen von der ganzen Landschaft, egal ob am Boden oder aus der Luft !
Ja, Offroad fahren ist immer anstrengend egal in welchem Terrain. Aber ich persönlich finde Wellblechpiste am schlimmsten.
Vielen Dank 😊
@18:25, so incredibly beautiful.🔥
One of the most beautiful sunsets ever. We were pretty tired and didn't get more shots, but enjoyed it until the last ray of light. 🔥
In the desert more people are drowned by the floods, than died of thirst, take care.
They can get really dangerous, really quick 😱
Looks like a great Overlanding experience. How come there’s no wildlife? Not even the sound of birds?
There was actually one ostrich running, didnt capture it. But everywhere in Kaokoland one can find wildlife, check the next episode (EP55), where we camp next top giraffes :)
That could have turned serious if you had become bogged in the middle of nowhere and the water level rising.
That's why we checked all the rivers before crossing. Getting stuck in one of those is a Game Over situation.😱 The flashflood in the valley was okay as we were only sliding but not really getting stuck. But yeah it could turn ugly pretty quickly 😵
Are you guys coming to South Africa?
Yeah, after Namibia comes South Africa. But we left not long ago 😭 we have a pretty big time gap. This was the last days of March!
Would be interesting to know what tyre pressures you were running?
Relatively high, at least in the Frist (muddy parts). I dropped it a bit as we went to the gravel but the mud came out of nowhere. We were probably at 2-2,5 bar
@@Thebluelandy Wow, pretty high. I normally run 1.0 / 1.2 in those conditions, similar to sand driving. At least you had the option to deflate if you had been stuck.. Safe driving.. 👍🇦🇺
How could get stuck that's easily in Defender at 4:39 ..
Hey! because we didn't reduce the tyre pressure enough and the place was super slippery. With lower pressure or mud terrains it would have been easier!
Guys tyre pressures. You should be down around 22psi not hwy pressure
Hey Luke, as you can see in the end of episode 53, I did drop the tire pressure, as we always do on gravel. Yeah we could have stopped in the middle of the muddy plain and dropped the pressure even further. But our priority was to get out and to higher an dry ground before we waste more time. We didn’t know if there was more water coming.
We were never really stuck in this situation, therefore the pressure was not an issue, trust me I drove this car with this tires in a lot of situations. And if they are clocked up with mud they get slippery no matter the pressure.
That is some nerve wreaking driving you had to do.
Ouh yeah, sliding side to side on water is not something one does everyday with a Defender. 😂
Maybe your tyre pressures were too high?
They were, indeed! we did put them a bit down once we left tarmac, but not enough for these conditions! this and how slippery this place gets with water, was the reason for the extreme drifting session
@@Thebluelandy - I was wondering but you guys were giving me heart palpitations given you had no support vehicles and I was wondering just how bad the flash flood was going to get. Great video and I’d love to visit Namibia. 💪❤️
@@layersoftheonion8168 Namibia should be in the top list of places to visit for anybody that wants to explore with a 4x4! It's a must!
The man who drives seems so dis interested in the ride. He actually seems bored in most of the episodes.
Hey, I’m not sure what you expect? We spent a lot of time in the car driving, 57k km in 14 months and it’s not comfortable. But I still enjoy driving and watching the scenery every km…