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Naukluft - The last stop

All good things come to an end, and our good thing ended in Naukluft, a national park on the border of the Namib desert.

Here, water is more available and vegetation is completely different.  A quick afternoon walk revealed fossilised grasses, springboks, needle acacias and the beautiful Kokerboom or Quiver Tree.

Water means more bugs, and these beauties seemed to be performing an aquatic dance for us.

Our delicious broiled steak dinner that night attracted a hungry genet.  Looking at that face that could melt a rock, it took all of our will power not to feed it. It is very important to remember that feeding wildlife is bad for them, and bad for us.  Wild animals must never learn to identify people with food, as this causes them to expect food from everyone and attack those who don't feed them.

And so, after our last camping night in Naukluft, we returned to Windhoek in order to catch our flights back home.  But my flight didn't really take me completely out of there.  My heart is in Namibia, and my body will follow as I prepare for my next trip there. 

I went to Namibia because I was told it was beautiful.  Those who told me so were right.  It is a beautiful land, but more than that, it is a land that captured my heart.

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Created in  December, 1999, and updated in May, 2001