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Namib Desert
Travel Blogs from Namib Desert, Namibia
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Desert, Dunes and Canyons
This is a top pick! ... dunes and shifting shadows as the sun rose. Imagine my disappointment then when a busload of Croatians showed up. So I left. Next up on Namibia's list of wonders was Fish River Canyon. It's 550m deep, up to 17 miles across and second in size to only ...
The Wonder of Trees in the South of Africa
This is a top pick! The wonder of trees Traveling in Africa, you start to wonder how trees can grow so big and so beautiful. The climate here does not always promote growth, yet in certain areas, trees prosper. There must be spirits in these trees! ...
climbing dunes
CAMPING DAY 13 Up real early today for our pre sunrise walk up Dune 45, so it was just a quick cup of coffee and off in the van 60 Km down the road to the dune. The walk up was good, if a bit tiring ( 3 steps up and slide one back). It took about 30 mins ...
A Day in the Desert.
Soussusvlei, the heart of the Namib Desert was our next stop. Well that was after Chris stopped to take a photo at the tropic of Capricorn. I somehow missed this, I am still to this day, not sure how, but I did. I am guessing I thought it was a toilet ...
Namib Desert
... Once finally on the top we enjoyed a beautiful sunrise and watched the sun play tricks on the deep red color of the sand. The namib desert is made up mostly of sea bond sand blown in from the Kalahari desert in Botswana. Of course we took the opportunity ...
Big red sand dunes
... dry plains and dunes before going over a range of mountains with some great gorges. After the mountains the red sand dunes of the Namib desert start. The camp site is quite nice, the pitches are arranged around the trees, so tonight we are camping in a ...
Sandboarding
Surrounding Swakopmund is the Namib Desert where we went for a morning of fun on the dunes. The size of the dunes was deceptive and climbing to the top was exhausting but well worth it as the views were stunning. Sand boarding on the dunes was excellent ...
Namib Desert
We climber Dune 45 at 4 in the morning to watch the sun rise and it was cloudy! Then we wnt for a walk in the desert! It was so bloody ...
Where are the Mountain Zebra?
... they spotted a new species like their first zebra. It was bitterly cold for these nights as an unusual cold snap had hit Namibia and exceptionally windy. So some of the students crammed 3 in a rooftop tent to try to keep warm, but I think ...
Sesriem
... talk back or risk losing their man! what that had to do with life in the bush we didn't know but it was funny all the same! Namibia is the most visually stunning place i have ever been and i was sad to be leaving, but looking forward to South ...
The world is made of sand
... highlight of your month in Namibia", I ask one of last year's students who took part in an expedition to Namibia. "Sandboarding in Swakopmund!", comes the instant reply. So not the trekking through incredible lanscapes then, or the satisfaction ganined ...
The Namib Desert
You know all those screensavers with the amazing golden dunes? Well this is where they are...the Namib Desert. These are the largest dunes in the world, reaching heights unimaginable and undetectable when you start climbing them - you keep ...
Namib Desert
... was a fantastic way to realise just how extensive the dunes are. Literally nothing but dunes for a 200km radius!! We visited the Namib Desert which is the oldest desert on Earth.... Namib means 'nothing'. We climbed up the massive sandunes to watch ...
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