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The Skeleton Coast in Namibia: What to Expect
Some refer to Namibia as ‘The Land God Created in Anger’. And after a year of traveling extensively around the country, I find it easy to see why. Namibia is a place where desolation manifests in exquisite beauty. It is a wild frontier, with unforgiving landscapes that seem virtually incompatible with life. The landscapes of Namibia are bleak, harsh, and foreboding. Nowhere does this ring more true than along the otherworldly stretch of shoreline known as the Skeleton Coast. THE SKELETON COAST IN NAMIBIA Like a massive graveyard, the Skeleton…
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Things to do in Swakopmund: Three Day Itinerary
Described by my trusty lonely planet guidebook as being “more German than Germany,” the town of Swakopmund is a quaint mixture of Los Angeles and Bavaria that sits on the border between the vast, Namib Desert and the mighty Atlantic Ocean. It is quite a peculiar town, where modern buildings, fancy restaurants and multi-million dollar houses seem to wipe away any sense of being in Africa. My WorldTeach friends and I traveled to Swakopmund for a long weekend at the end of our first semester of teaching in Namibia. After…
