Namibia – Part 3 By Warwick Blow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moving inland the scene changes, sands gradually give way to rocky landscapes straight from a Star Wars movie interspersed with living fossils in the form of 1000 year old welwitschia plants. Rock art capturing the earliest human existence, telling of our early life in a land full of animals, is perfectly preserved in this arid environment along with forests petrified in stone and mountains that appear burnt to the naked eye and rock outcrops tower over flat plains. �
The sand and rocks give way to open savannah grasslands dotted with solitary acacias and patches of mopane. This is big game country teaming with wildlife both in and out of the reserves.  Flat open plains stretch as far as the eye can see and all around wild, untamed Africa . In this harsh land, as the end of the dry seasons nears, nature forces one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on earth. Herds of game congregate to slake their thirst at waterholes, each species understanding their place in this ancient hierarchy.  �
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