Travelogues

NAMIBIA - The North

The North has got some interesting place to visit.

Waterberg Plateau Park is a private park, along the road from Windhoek to Etosha.
The landscape is beautiful, but the game is better in Etosha.
You can't go around with your car, but you have to rent a guided tour with the park rangers.
On the red rocks there are many footprinting of dinosaurs.

After the Waterberg we visited Etosha, then we reached Opuwo, with the Himba villages. We didn't go to Epupa Falls, because the road is terrible and we feared for one of our cars.

At Khorixas, in the Damaraland, we visited the Pietrified Forest, Twyfelfontein, the Burnt Mountain and the Organ Pipe. In the Pietrified Forest 50 fossil trunks were transported here from a river 250 millions years ago. Twyfelfontein has got the biggest collection of rock-art in Namibia. There are about 2000 graffiti, made from 6,000 to 500 years ago. A Damara guide showed us the best graffiti, representing giraffes, elephants, anthelopes and hunters. The sun is very hot, so it's better visiting the site in the morning with sun cream and a hat. The Burnt Mountain is a hill 200 metres high, originated by a volcan. The rocks are a mix of black, grey, orange and purple. At the sunset the sun light generates an incredible variety of colours.
In the Brandeberg Mountain, we saw the famous White Lady: after an hour walking in the dried bed of a river we got on the rocks and saw these famous rock paintings, representing a man with a white dress in the middle of a big hunting scene.

From Khorixas we reached the Skeleton Coast National Park.