The Namib desert, Namibia

The End of the Road: Day 362

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November 30th 2008
Hi everyone from Cape Town at the end of the road for our year of traveling. Over the last week and a bit we have been steadily heading south, with our last stop after Swakopmund in Namibia being the Namib desert. We took a dune walk with a local bushman guide into the dune fields where the Tsauchab River is blocked by the world's largest sand dunes. The dunes are progressively marching inwar ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more