We drove through Namib Naukluft Park on the way to our desert walk in Sesriem (gateway to Sossusvlei). The dunes are numbered from the sea inland, and are some of the highest in the world. There are many types of dunes as well. The Namib dunes shift with the winds giving them the desgnation “dynamic [...]
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We spent the night bush camping near Spitzkoppe, a huge collection of boulders and rock formed by the collpse of a huge volcano and subsequent erosion. Spitzkoppe is now called the Matterhorn of Namibia. The landscape was striking, and reminded us a great deal of Arizona or southern Utah. There were some bushman rock paintings under one of [...]
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