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Etosha National Park is the largest and oldest game park in Africa and it has the largest population of black rhinos in Africa.
Oshikoto/Otjikoto and Guinas Lakes contain a rear bred of small fish that are found nowhere else in the world.
The Hoba Meteorite is the largest in the world and weighs about 60 tonnes. It fell to earth 80 000 years ago.
The Hoba meteorite can be found on the farm, 24 kilometres from Grootfontein. it is 3 metres long and one metre wide, weights 50 tons and has a volume of 9 cubic metres.
Brandberg has the richest collection of rock paintings in the world. There are more than 43 000 paintings.
The oldest rock art in Africa is discovered in a cave in the Huns Mountains. It is between 25 000 and 27 000 years old.
Twyfelfontein has one of the largest collections of rock art in Africa.
The Spitzkoppe in the Namib Desert are about 400 million years old.
The Namib Naukluft Park is the third largest game park in Africa and it is about 50.000 sgkms in size. It includes a 100 to 150km broad belt of land that stretches along the coastline from the Swakop valley in the north, towards the road B4 to Luderitz in the south.
Most parts of this enormous area are not accessible to man. One can only visit a small stretch north of the Kuiseb river: the Naukluft Mountains and the Sossusvlei in the central dune fields. the highlight of a visit to the Namib Naukluft Park i a trip to the Sossusvlei. It lies within the Central Dune Namib, which covers the largest part of the park (32 000 sqkms).
The Fish River Canyon is the second largest in the world and some of the rocks are up to 2 600 million years old!
From May to August, Ai-Ais marks the starting point for hiking trips in the Fishriver Canyon. In addition to the breathtaking scenery, there is a rich variety of wildlife and birdlife to be seen. One must be reasonably fit and of sound health to attemt these hikes.
Some of the highest dunes in the world are found in Sossusvlei and are more than 325m high.
The Sossusvlei, Namibia's famous highlight in the Namib Desert is a huge clay pan enclosed by giant sand dunes. Some of the spectacular hills of sand are 300 metres high (the highest in the world. Only after a heavy rainfall, which is a rare accurance in this area does the vlei fill with a turquoise lake that remain for quite some time, as the clay layers hardly allow any water infiltration.
The largest lichen fields in the world are found along Namibia’s west coast.
The Namib Desert is the world’s oldest desert.
The dunes of the Namib desert have developed over a period of many millions of years. It is thought that the vast quantities of sand were deposited into the Atrlantic Ocean by the Orange river. This material was subsequently moved northwards by the Benguela current to be dumped back onto the land by the surf.
Rossing is the biggest open pit uranium mine in the world.
Some kilometres south of Ondangwa in Olukonda (Ovamboland) is the Finnish mission station "Nakambale". The thatched mission church built in the year 1889 is the oldest church in the north and is today a National Monument.
The Kolmanskoppe hospital had the first x-ray unit in Africa.
The Welwitschia plant only found in the Namib Desert is regarded as a living fossil. It produces only two leaves which get torn into long strips by the wind. The oldest plant is more than 2 000 years old. It has a very deep root system and can also absorb water through its leaves.
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