The Coast of Skeletons
is “The land that God created in anger,” as the local aborigines whisper, having buried under lifeless sands alluring deposits of diamonds, because of which adventurers from all over the world sailed through storms and bad weather to the shores of the Namibian desert, the oldest in the world, keeps many secrets.
Etosha
Etosha Park has captured the salt lake of the same name in its exotic embrace and is amazing in every way. The name of this area sounds poetic in translation from the language of the Ovambo tribe: “a large white space” or “a place where nothing grows”.
Namib
The Namib Desert is one of the oldest on earth, its age is estimated by scientists at 60-80 million years. The desert impresses with the diversity of its landscapes — brown weathered rocks, numerous canyons of dry rivers, huge wandering dunes and vast gravelly wastelands interspersed with tiny oases.
Sossufley
Sossufley is both the name of the plain and a specific salt—clay platform on it, surrounded by high red dunes. The plain is located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park. At the same time, it is also the name of a small village between the dunes, where it happens that it snows.
Fish River
It turns out that the second largest canyon in the world after the legendary Arizona natural attraction, the Grand Canyon, is located in Namibia. Fish River Canyon, which was formed as a result of giant tectonic activity, has an impressive age: one hundred and fifty million years.