"Namibia is famous for the Skeleton Coast and the Salt Pans of Etosha. However I was on a twelve day trip, seeing some of the more remote areas of the country, rather than following in the footsteps of many other travellers to the region. This..."
The Best Travel Writing About Namibia
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Articles about Namibia
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A Safari in Namibia
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Mark Davidson
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Namibia: Deserts and Diamonds
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John Borthwick
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Sperregebiet
""Diamonds were so plentiful that early 'mining' was done on one's stomach," says our Namibian guide. "Prospectors just lay there and plucked gems from the sand." We're standing on the edge of a wild dunescape in southern Namibia known ominously as..."
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Kalahari
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Rupert Isaacson
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Namibia
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Skeleton Coast
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Windhoek
"It was winter in the Kalahari, the grasses yellowed by sun, the trees black and bare, the sky an unremitting, dazzling blue. The three Ju’/Hoansi Bushman hunters - lean brown men, whip-thin, with sharp features, quick eyes, and hair that grew in..."
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Namib Desert, Namibia
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Matthew Barker
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Namib Desert
"Extends some 1930 kilometres over southern Africa, before merging with the Kalahari. The Estosha National Park is famed for its safari tours; a nicely temperate desert (can get quite foggy at times), this is one of the few really adventurous deserts..."
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Before You Die: Feel the Heat
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Dea Birkett
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Namibia
Namibia: Lie on top of the Hoba Meteorite in Namibia, and feel its heat.
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Karos Lodge
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Brent Hannon
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Namib Desert
"The Karos Lodge at Sossusvlei is no ordinary resort. Room cards warn guests to wear shoes, because scorpions and spiders hide in the sand. They show how to fasten the canvas flaps during sandstorms, and how to conserve water, which comes from a..."
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Hands Off the Baobabs
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Gillian Ivory
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Namibia
"The great thing about Namibia is that there isn’t a sniff of that sycophantic attitude towards tourists. No servile flattery here. It’s not to say that there isn’t service and efficiency (its Germanic colonial legacy takes care..."
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Before You Die: Balance on a Razor Sharp Ridge of an Ochre Coloured Dune in Sossuvlei, Namibia
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Gillian Ivory
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Namib Desert
"Do it barefoot and you’ll feel the rising heat of the sand in what is possibly the oldest desert in the world. Dwarfed by its magic, watch the horizon stretch towards infinity. Gillian Wear"
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Namibia
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Cameron Wilson
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Namibia
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Etosha National Park Region
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Etosha National Park
"At Otjitotongwe Cheetah Park in northern Namibia, you get to meet the cats and give them a good scratch behind the ears. Usually this goes off without a hitch, but six-year old Zeeu has snagged a canine on my tatty t-shirt and now we’re both..."
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Blazing Saddles: Horseback Adventure Across the Namib Desert
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Martin Li
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Namibia
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Namib Desert Region
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Namib Desert
"“Go!” screams Waldi as our horses charge at full gallop across the Rooisand dunes at the edge of the Namib Desert. Grassy tufts, lone acacia trees and occasionally my life flash before me in a furious blur of red sand as we hurtle towards our..."
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