Namibia Holiday & Travel 2016

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Springbok Wasser Gate Koic hab

Monument b & Stone Tower

Uga

Vingerklip (Rock Finger)

Khorixas

Waterberg Plateau Park

Waterberg Wilderness Trail

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German & Herero Military Graveyard

Dramatic Cliffs Burnt Mountain

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Twyfelfontein Rock Engraving Salt Flats

1553m

Kalkveld Ugab

Salt Flats

Ugab River Gate gden Rocks

Durissa Bay

Brandberg

Ugab Guided Trail

Dinosaur's Footprints

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Lady Painting

Salt Flats

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Bandom Bay

Bocock’s Bay Horing Bay

Franke Tower & Roman Catholic Omaruru Church & Rhenish Mission House

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National West Coast Tourist Recreational Area

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Rock Paintings

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Moon Landscape

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Bosua Pass

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Dune 7

Sandwich Harbour

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Kupferberg Pass

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Khomas

Auasberge

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Kuiseb Canyon

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Namib-Naukluft Park

Sandwich Harbour

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Walvis Bay Boundary Post, Nature ReserveKuiseb River

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HOSEA KUTAKO (International Airport)

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Namib Desert Park

Sweet Thorn Hiking Trail Daan Viljoen Game Park

Von François Fort

Tinkas Nature Trail

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Stop at the small miners’ crystal stalls at the Spitzkoppe turnoff for some gemstone shopping.

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Rock Sculpture Trail

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As many as 200 000 South African fur seals gather at Cape Cross during the breeding season.

Tsaobis Leopard Nature Park

Welwitschia Plains

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Von Bach Recreation Resort

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Powder Tower

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Walvis Bay

Old Rhenish WalvisMission Bay Church & Hope Locomotive

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Arandis

Goanikontes

Okahandja

Hot Springs

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Regimental Badges

Swakopmund

Moordkoppie

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Rock Bay

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Karibib

Usakos

Erongo

Ombo Ostrich Farm

Philips Cave

1728m Gross Spitzkoppe

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Okaharui War Memorial

Rock Arch

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Cape Cross Diego Cão Cross Cape Cross Seal Reserve

Ovikokorero War Memorial

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Rehoboth

C26

Gamsberg Pass

Lake Oanob Resort

Gaub Pass

Zebra Pan Dassie Trails

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Spreetshoogte Pass

Kuiseb

Black Cliff

Conception Bay

The reed-fringed lagoon at Sandwich Harbour is a spec­ tacular and soughtafter destination.

Tsondab Vlei Salt Flats

Remhoogte Pass

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Naukluft

NAUKL 4x4 Trail UF T Olive Trail

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Cemetery at Nomtsas

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Fish The most northern of these roads leads from Windhoek past the Daan Viljoen Game Park, then dips and dives TSARISBERGE 1895m westwards through the rolling hills of the Khomas HochlandMaltahöhe towards the Hud Namib. Because of the steep gradient up Zarishoogte Namib-Naukluft No fewer than four passes lead down (1:5) ofPassthe Bosua Pass, caravans should the escarpment toPark the desert, all not be driven along this road, which Namib Rand affording splendid viewsNature overReserve the is best travelled from east to west. The pre-Namib and ultimately Namib route Duwisib leads Castle past Bloedkoppie towards proper. They are gravel roads, and the coast. The Kupferberg Road is Hu am need to be negotiated with care, but accessed by following Mandume s for those with an adventurous spirit Ndemufayo Avenue out of town, past and suitable vehicles, they are highly Pioneers Park in a southerly direction, recommended. and then onto the Gamsberg road. Sesriem Canyon ‘ghost house’ it is today. Also along Tsau Hot-air Balloon Flights this route, onSossusvlei the farm Karanah, are the remains of the Von Francois Fort, built to protect the old wagon route between Windhoek and the coast.

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Simaedjo Point

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An intriguing feature along this routeFlats is the once-resplendent Liebig Haus, its crumbling grandeur a reminder Hollandsbird of a bygone era. It was built in 1912 Island on Farm Neu Heusis as a residence for the director of the Deutsche Farmgesellschaft (German Farmers’St Francis Society). In 1944 the South African Bay government confiscated the farm and subdivided it into smaller units, Easter Point which were given to ex-soldiers after the Second World War. Liebig House Easter Cliffs was inhabited until 1955, after which it fell into disuse. It was subsequently Spencer Bay plundered by vandals to becameMercury the Island

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Meob Bay Black Reef

Waterkloof Trail

Naukluft Hiking Trail

Fish Kub Memorial Hardap Recreatio Resort

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