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Under the splendour
of the Namibian night sky, sleep out in the canyons.
In 4 x 4, all terrain
vehicles we depart for the Swakop River, a dry river bed that seldom flows
and the "Moon Mountains" allowing time to explore this area of deep chasms
and interesting geological features before continuing to "Welwitschia
Valley" where literally thousands of these fascinating plants litter the
ground.
The Welwitschia plant was
discovered in 1859 by Dr Friedrich Welwitsch and has been recorded as
living to 1500 years. It is he most talked about plant in the Botanical
World and considered to be the Paradox of the Namib.
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