A foggy desert coast with shipwrecks and whale bones on the beaches. At Cape Cross, up to 200,000 Cape fur seals breed. Further north, the park is wild and remote.
Swakopmund, a German colonial seaside town, is the base for dune sports and Sandwich Harbour tours.
A seaside town with German colonial buildings between the desert and the ocean.
A rugged region with desert-adapted elephants and rhinos, and Twyfelfontein, with over 2,000 rock engravings, a UNESCO site.
A vast salt pan surrounded by grassland and waterholes, where elephants, lions, rhinos, giraffes and zebras gather in the dry season.
Some of the highest sand dunes in the world, red-orange in the Namib Desert, a UNESCO site.
A diamond-mining town abandoned in the 1950s, now being swallowed by sand, with dunes filling grand houses.
The largest canyon in Africa, 160 km long and up to 550 m deep.
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