At the top of Namibia, between Angola and Botswana, you’ll find an oddly-shaped panhandle, called the Caprivi Strip. It’s covered by permanent water and starts at the Kavango River in the east. It then follows the Zambezi River all the way to the border intersection...
Thanks to a brilliant stroke of German planning, the capital city, Windhoek, is located in the middle of the country. With a population of around 200 000, it’s a really tiny capital by global standards, making it just the right size to explore by foot. It’s extremely...
Home to some truly bizarre forms of life, much of the 80 – 250km-wide Namib Desert is situated within the Namib-Naukluft Park. This is one of the largest national parks in Africa. In fact, Namib means ‘vast’ in the Nama language. It’s most famous for its...
The coastline between where the Kunene and Ugab rivers open into the Atlantic, is known as the Skeleton Coast. The name is often used for the entire desert coastline, even as far south as Lüderitz. The coastal parks consist of nearly two million hectares of dunes and...
The San Bushmen were traditionally hunter-gatherers obtaining there food from wild plants and animals. These days, however, this tradition has mostly been replaced with farming or pastoralist activity, due to government-enforced modernisation programmes. The San...
About Namibia Wedged between the South Atlantic and the Kalahari, the beautiful Namibia harbours the world’s oldest desert, the highest sand dunes, and one of the most notorious coasts to shippers, aptly named Skeleton Coast. It’s one of the world’s newest...
The Skeleton Coast was given the name ‘The land God made in anger’ by the Bushmen who lived in the area due to its inhospitable environment. Portuguese sailors once referred to it as ‘The Gates of Hell’. A dense fog often covers the ocean and there is a constant heavy...
