In March Awesome Chapters had the privilege to be involved with a small film production. It’s a French documentary on very bad roads all around the world, and how the people cope with it. The crew was incredibly small, just one camera man, the director and me.
If you are curious about their work, just look up Les Rutes L’Impossibles on the internet. The cover image for this post was taken close to Opuwo, at a Herero burial ceremony, and shows some tents of the people that came.
Funnily enough, when someone thinks of the roads in Namibia they generally say the roads are bad, but for the most part, the roads in Namibia are really good, and the ones that are not fun to drive are mostly corrugated roads. The corrugation is not even that bad, in most cases. No, what these guys were after were roads where you need to engage four wheel drive and hang on.
Plenty of roads like that in Namibia? Well, yes, if you count the touristy ones. Not so many when you only look at roads that people have to travel outside of the tourism industry.
We did have a fun filled month of finding the worst roads in Namibia, and filming the people that have to travel them. What will the final product look like? I am just as curious!
