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Sandboarding Junkies
Here's another article on the hot, literally, new sport of sandboarding, which is all the rage in Namibia where the dunes are tall and the safety regulations are, well, non-existent. One comapny running these trips is called Alter-Action. Created by Chris Jason and Beth Sarro in 1994, the company is the first professional sandboarding operation on the Namibian Coast. They say they have found the "perfect" sandboarding dune - a "star dune with six different faces and a towering height of 100 meters". Sweet.
Besides supplying the equipment - including a helmet, gloves, elbow and knee pads - Alter Action provides transportation to and from local hotels, instruction, lunch and drinks for around $35 per person.
Sounds like a duneload of fun...but what about those nasty scrapes when you fall. Can you say raspberry?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Willy Volk Dec 18th 2005 5:07PM
I sandboarded in Windhoek, Namibia in 1999. It was the highlight of 10 days traveling through the northern part of the country. Sandboarding is easy and lots of fun, and I learned that trudging up the face of a sand dune is an excellent cure for a nasty hangover. I was nervous that wiping out would leave terrible "raspberries," but the sand is soft, and wiping out feels like sliding on soft, powdery snow -- painless. I was, however, covered in sand that evening. Some people argued that sandboarding destroys the habitat for small organisms growing on the dunes; the sand, however, shifts constantly, so I'm uncertain this is a concern.