Being a lover of watersports, and sailing in particular, I’ve been intrigued for a while to branch out and experience land yachting. And what better place to try it than in Namibia, the oldest desert in the world.

Take one French man, a huge flat desert, four land yachts and some willing participants and you have all you need for a perfect day racing across the sand. Ahh, but wait, there was something missing. The wind.

When we first arrived at the designated site the wind was up and I put in a few practice laps in my yacht, a cross between a bath tub and a dinghy which you steer with your feet. It was definitely fun. Unfortunately the wind soon dropped and we were left to push oursleves around by the wheels. The hilarity of the situation kept us giggling and we had a fun hour or so despite mother nature’s lack of compromise.

We’ll defintely give it another go when we get the chance… perhaps Dubai will have deserts large enough.

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