Hi Mildred,
Thanks for your reply. I had a brilliant time in Namibia but the icing on the cake would have been to do a balloon flight over the dunes at Sossusvlei. I asked if I could do it during free time, but the only time the flights go is early morning - and that was the time we were visiting the dunes! My fellow travellers, knowing that I really wanted to do one, helpfully pointed out balloons in the sky as we journeyed through the dunes! I certainly don't want to miss out on any included excursions to do a balloon ride but it would be very helpful if the itinerary could be arranged in such a way that we could do a ride in our free time. I have a feeling it will be the same in Burma at Bagan - that the time the flights will be operating is the very time we will be visiting the temples. At least I got to go up in a helium balloon in Tallinn last month...
Ah well, you can't win them all....
All the best,
Bob