Adventure Afrika

Like a Bat out of HELL

“Well, I can see myself tearing up the road, faster than any other boy has ever gone.”
– Meat Loaf, Bat out of Hell

Namibia is a place of wonder and being able to experience the dunes outside Walvis Bay in a beast like the Ford Ranger Raptor was an experience I will never forget. Cruising at over 100km/h in the dunes and on the beach floods your system with adrenalin and it only subsides hours after you get out from behind the steering wheel.

The vehicle literally flies over the bumps and jumps, and you hardly feel a thing as the suspensions sucks up all the punishment you throw at it. Its ability to let you tackle almost any dune without hesitation puts it in a whole different class. Stepping on the accelerator and being pushed back into your seat as you climb up a 200m-high dune, steering around the soft patches to reach the top, is mind blowing. As you

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