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Petrified forest

One more example of the amazing things you can find driving around Namibia. A whole forest petrified in the middle of the desert. How it may have look like a few million years ago? The trees where lying in the ground but reached more than 15 meters high.
It doesn't seem like you're in an African country.

November 20th 2006
At November 8 of 2003, our illiterate and now sadly re-elected president, made the following comment: "I'm surprised because if you arrive in Windhoek, it doesn't seem like you're in an African country. It's so clean and beautiful." I know he was extremely stupid making this comment, because to begin with, it offends all the African countries at once. But, in a way, we couldn't stop ourselves of d ... read more
Africa » Namibia » Sossusvlei

Namibian Flag 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
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