The Savannah near camp

Day 9: Fish River Canyon - Sesreim

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August 20th 2012
One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday's blog was the landscape of Namibia. It is vast nothingness, but it is so beautiful. The sky is blue, the ground is brown and there is a perfectly horizontal (or so it seems) horizon. It just seems like you are driving from nowhere, going nowhere and it's never going to end. Today we were heading to Sesreim, which is the "base camp" for Sossusv ... read more

Africa » Namibia » Sesriem

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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