Fish River Canyon

Days 33-43: Namibia

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February 27th 2007
Our first night at Namibia we spent at a campsite about 20mins past the border. Namibia as a country is such a dry, dry place and largely desert, and then we enter the driveway of this campsite and they have sprinklers going everywhere so that it is like this big green, plush oasis in the middle of nowhere. Quite a laugh really! It was a really nice campsite right on Orange River, we set up ten ... read more

Africa » Namibia

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South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War I and administered it as a mandate until after World War II, when it annexed the territory. In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla gr... ... read more