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Rocks, sand and salt of NW Namibia

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September 29th 2009
(This about 3 weeks old now - sorry!) We hit the Skeleton Coast in the far NW of Namibia (well, at Torra Bay) in a screaming side wind that was whipping sand across the road and sand-blasting the vehicle fairly effectively! What a journey from the searingly hot, interior, flat scrubby semi-arid so-called farmlands to the desolate and exposed coast with cold sandy southerly. We did hunkerdown fo ... read more

Africa » Namibia » Twyfelfontein

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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