Skeleton Coast
Namibia, Skeleton Coast "The land that God created in anger," as local aborigines whisper, burying under lifeless sands inviting deposits of diamonds, because of which adventurers from all over the world swam through storms and bad weather to the shores of the Namibian desert, the oldest in the world, keeps many secrets.
Etosha
Etosha, Ombika Etosha Park captured in its exotic embrace the same saline lake and is amazing in every way.
Poetically, the name of this area is translated from the language of the Owambo tribe: "a large white space" or "a place where nothing grows".
Namib
Namіb Namib Desert is one of the oldest on earth, its age is estimated by scientists at 60-80 million years. The desert is striking in its variety of landscapes - brown weathered rocks, numerous canyons of dry rivers, huge wandering sand dunes and vast rubbish heaths interspersed with tiny oases.
Sosswefley
Namib-Naukluft National Park Sossufly - this is the name of the plain, and a specific salt-clay site on it, surrounded by tall red dunes. The plain is located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park. Simultaneously, this is the name of a small village between the dunes where it happens that it's snowing.
Fish River
Fish River CanyonIt turns out that the second largest canyon in the world after the legendary Arizona natural landmark of the Grand Canyon is in Namibia. Canyon Fish River, which was formed as a result of giant tectonic activity, has an impressive age: one hundred and fifty million years.
Namibia is most famous for the Namib Desert lying along the coast, the world's oldest . Difficult believe that the age of this place on our planet is 60 - 80 million years! The Namib enchants with its landscapes: here are the waves of sand dunes coming from the horizon, constantly moving by the wind, and brown, wind-cliffed rocks, and canyons of dried up rivers, and small but such important oases to which in winter in search of water all the living . Such oases in winter during a drought represent an excellent opportunity to see an incredible number of different representatives of local fauna in one place .
huge part of Namibia's Etosha National Park occupies located in the eponymous salt lake. The park is full of water reservoirs ¬ -Okaukuijo, Chudobo, Klein Namutoni, Batiya, Oliphandsad - around which animals gather to water: here you can often see elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, lions and antelopes.
To the southwest of Etosha lies the enchanting edge of Damaraland, where endless sandy fields adjoin high mountains where truly fantastic rock formations are created by natural forces: winds, rains and temperature jumps..In Damaraland, in the town of Twifefontein, you can see rock paintings 4-2 centuries .to n .e ., ranked by UNESCO to the list of monuments of world culture .There are also the highest mountains in the country - Königstein, Spitzkopp, Pondoks and Brandberg array, perfectly suitable for mountaineering and tracking, "Stone Forest", which preserved the fossilized 250-300 million years ago trees, extinct volcanoes and laccoliths, and even traces of dinosaurs, printed in frozen volcanic rock .
Between the rivers Kunene and Ugab for 2000 km stretched the mysterious and beautiful Skeleton Coast with its ghostly dunes and colorful canyons, the shore of the numerous shipwrecks that left behind the hulls of ships, eaten by the sea and time..Those who are enchanted by the sands-covered legends and secrets will surely like the ghost towns scattered across the desert and every year more and more immersed in it: Elizabeth Bay, Pomona, Bogenfels, and the most famous - Kolmanskop - today inhabit only hyenas and jackals .The stories of these cities seem so incredible that they are more like legends and fairy tales - this is what many travelers consider the most attractive attraction .
However, more civilized attractions in Namibia, too, is typed for all tastes: the town of Hrutfontein in the north of the country, founded by German immigrants about a hundred years ago, is better known as the place of the fall about 80 thousand years ago of the largest meteorite Hoba (about 50 tons) our days.
In North Namibia, where the population is the largest, it is worth seeing the city of Ochivarongo, whose name translates as "beautiful" .It often becomes a transit point when traveling to national parks: here are the Cheetah conservation center, the herding dog nursery and the only crocodile farm in the country where Nile alligators are bred .The hosts of the surrounding farms are happy to host tourists - here you can try traditional local dishes and in practice get acquainted with the unique culture of Namibia .
The cities of Ondangwa and Oshakati are not only major shopping centers, but also an excellent place to explore the culture of the Ovambo people. Attention deserve the National Monument of Olukonda and the Nakambale Museum - the home of the Finnish missionary Martti Rautenen, who received the nickname "Nakambale" from local residents, now demonstrating the culture of northern Namibia and the chronology of Ovamboland. The Kunene Handicraft Center and the Kaoko-Info Center in the capital of the Kaokovedeld-Opuvo region are also interesting.
The largest city of Namibia and its capital - Windhoek - is the greenest place in the country .Its name translates as "windy corner" - the city is located at an altitude of 1650 m between the mountains of Awas and Eros, and here is the largest amount of precipitation .Here are the National Museum of Namibia, the National Gallery of Art, the Folklore Center Penduka, the Namibia Crafts Center, numerous picturesque mansions in the German style, among which the most famous are Heinzburg, Sanderburg, Schwerinsburg, Tintenpalas Palace, Neo-Gothic Christukirche Church, no less colorful Lutheran Church and the Old Fort .