The desert goes right down to the sea

To the Atlantic Coast

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October 31st 2015
31 October 2015 One of the things that has surprised me about this trip is that all our travelling in the Sothern African interior has been on a plateau with an average height of about 1000m. Today all that changed as we slowly descended for 120k through bleak though in its way beautiful desert scenery until we reached the Atlantic Coast at Henties Bay. It wasn’t only the altitude tha ... 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