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    NAMIBIA ENDLESS HORIZON

    Sep 01, 2016 5 minutes
    Words: JO KROMBERG Photographs: WILLIE SMIT

    The country of vast, barren nothingness stretches to infinity beneath the plane from Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, to Walvis Bay, situated 310km away. The dusty road snakes through the countryside like an ochre artery from 25 000 feet and the vast desert looks like the dry, cracking skin of a very old man.

    The mist is rolling in at Walvis Bay, making for a petrifying instrument landing. Africa is not for sissies.

    We step off the plane to a freezing 12oC compared to Windhoek’s almost 20 - the contrasts in Namibia are extreme.

    Our first location is Beach Lodge in the bustling metropolis of Swakopmund, about half an hour’s drive from Walvis Bay through the barren desert. The hotel is literally on the shoreline and the sea breeze coolly caresses the quaint

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