Namibia

Namibia’s most conspicuous draw card is the Namib, an endless stretch of red sand interrupted with sparse vegetation. The desert comprises the Skeleton Coast and the Namib-Naukluft parks, covering 15% of the country’s landmass, including about 6.5 million hectares of some of the southern hemisphere’s driest and most inhospitable terrain.

These abandoned stretches of sand and gravel, hemmed in by relentless dune, are home to a range of unique flora and fauna, with nearly 200 vertebrates found nowhere else. Despite its desolation, it is a living desert, inhabited by gemsbok, bird flocks, and succulents and over 20endemic reptiles.

Caprivi Strip
Over the border from the Chobe River in Botswana, is the eastern portion of the Caprivi Strip – a long panhandle en – close by permanent water stretching eastward from the Kavango River, to and along the Zambezi, and ending at the border junction of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

This is the wettest region in Namibia and its abundance of water sustains a large variety of animal and bird species. There are no fences, so animals can roam freely across the borders of the neighbouring countries of Botswana and Zambia.