Destinations
Nine landscapes, each its own country.
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Every destination page is a photograph of the place itself, then the short version of why it matters.
Namibia
The country itself, the oldest desert on earth, the emptiest coast, and the great white pan.
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Sossusvlei
Red dunes rising from a white clay pan. The most photographed desert on earth.
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Etosha National Park
A salt flat the size of a small country. In the dry season, every animal in the park comes to you.
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Damaraland
Granite inselbergs, 6,000-year-old rock art, and dry riverbeds walked by desert-adapted elephants.
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Skeleton Coast
Fog-bound shoreline. Shipwrecks half-swallowed by sand. The end-of-the-world coast.
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Kalahari
Red sand plains. Acacia scrub. A silence that is geological, not atmospheric.
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Caprivi Strip
The forgotten north-east. Where Namibia becomes river, forest, and hundreds of bird species.
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Chobe River
A river with one of the densest elephant populations in Africa.
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Victoria Falls
Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders. One of the largest sheets of falling water in the world.
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