My Beautiful Country Namibia!

[Hunter4752001]

Beautiful. Sometimes I feel I'd rather forget about hunting and just spend forever enjoying the country. A 4x4 and an open road.

 

[NamStay]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=215972060218695

 

[jacques smith]

Very nice pictures, thanks for posting—- Namibia truly is a special place

 

[meigsbucks]

Wonderful pictures and descriptions. I’ve been to Namibia and look forward to going back sometime.

 

[MAdcox]

Just returned from my first visit to your beautiful country. It is a very special place. The little corner we hunted in was some of the prettiest country I've ever seen.

 

[Brian]

Thank you for the wonderful photos. My wife and I have visited some of the places in your photos. Brian

 

[Tobe]

Thanks for sharing. I will have to add a few places to my finished with hunting list.

 

[NamStay]

 

[NamStay]

Namibia’s Desert Camps​

Namibia’s Desert Camps

Namibia’s desert landscapes present travelers with a symphony of paradox: wide-open spaces and intimate encounters; rugged natural beauty and luxurious accommodations. Here are three base camps that will set the scene for travel transcendence.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Namibia‘s desert landscapes present travelers with a symphony of paradox: wide-open spaces and intimate encounters; rugged natural beauty and luxurious accommodations.

Here are three base camps that will set the scene for travel transcendence:​

> Camp Kipwe (Damaraland):

Ingeniously built among the giant boulders of a granite kopje, this cluster of igloo-shaped bungalows is close to the petroglyphs carved thousands of years ago by the Khoikhoi people at Twyfelfontein, Namibia’s first World Heritage site. Explore these ancient rock engravings on guided walks. In the mornings, look for elephants as they roam dry riverbeds in search of water.

 

[Hoas]

A plant that ‘cannot die’ reveals its genetic secrets

Welwitschia, found in the Namib Desert, is one of the longest living plants on the planet. Scientists are now discovering its genetic secrets, writes Richard Sima

www.independent.co.uk

The longest-lived leaves in the plant kingdom can be found only in the harsh, hyperarid desert that crosses the boundary between southern Angola and northern Namibia.

A desert is not, of course, the most hospitable place for living things to grow, let alone leafy greens, but the Namib Desert — the world’s oldest, with parts receiving less than 2 inches of precipitation a year — is where Welwitschia calls home.


In Afrikaans, the plant is named “tweeblaarkanniedood,” which means “two leaves that cannot die”. The naming is apt: Welwitschia grows only two leaves — and continuously — in a lifetime that can last millenniums.

“Most plants develop a leaf, and that’s it,” says Andrew Leitch, a plant geneticist at the Queen Mary University of London. “This plant can live thousands of years, and it never stops growing. When it does stop growing, it’s dead.”

 

[JoosR]

 

[NamStay]

Tips For Taking Your Kids On Safari​

Tips for Taking Your Kids on Safari

African safaris are the things of bucket-list dreams. Who in their right mind would pass up the opportunity to watch animals in their natural habitat, roaming free as they were meant to? Who wouldn’t get excited about this chance of a lifetime? My kids.

www.nationalgeographic.com

African safaris are the things of bucket-list dreams. Who in their right mind would pass up the opportunity to watch animals in their natural habitat, roaming free as they were meant to? Who wouldn’t get excited about this chance of a lifetime?

My kids.

Of course, they liked the idea of a safari. I’d told them about how we would bump along the great plains of Kenya and Namibia in a high-seated jeep, spying lions, elephants, and zebras through our binoculars and, perhaps — even thrillingly — up close.