The largest sand dunes in the world are awesomely enormous and eerily enticing. The feminine curves of Sossusvlei's rich ochre sea of sand, rise tantalisingly to almost 1,000 feet (305metres), which is 300 feet (91metres) more than their nearest rivals in Arabia. Discarding shoes & plunging bare feet into the hot soft sand is the best way to climb to the top, but each step forms a mini sand slide and footprints look more like an insect trail as they are dwarfed by the sheer size and immensity of the dunes.

Geologists suspect that this supreme desert, that covers most of the Namib Naukluft National Park, is the oldest desert known to man. The older the dune the brighter the colour from slow iron oxidisation & a zillion tiny fragments of garnets. These dunes refract spectacular colours with the changing light & turn from burnt orange through reds to deepest mauve.

Etosha is one of the largest and best game viewing parks in the whole of Africa. The reason is in the Ovambo name Etosha, which means 'huge white area' or 'place of dry water', depending upon whom you ask. For most of the year a vast shallow pan, which was once a lake the size of Holland, shimmers a glaring bright white from crystallised salt across its entire surface. Surrounding the pans is a variety of grass and woodlands amongst which live a wonderful variety of animals and birds, insects and reptiles.

Fish River Canyon is the second largest canyon in the world behind only the Grand Canyon in Arizona (though some dispute this). Located on the continent of Africa in southern Namibia, the Fish River Canyon is some 100 miles long, up to 16.5 miles wide and up to 1,800 feet deep in places

The Skeleton Coast is so named because of the many sailors who perished on this desolate sandy coast. This sailor who made to shore did not live to tell the tale as this arid coastal area is virtually devoid of water and vegetation.

The fossil plant Welwitschia Mirabilis has a lifespan of up to 2000 years.

Hoba Meteorite, discovered in the 1920s, is the largest known meteorite in the world and situated 20 km from Grootfontein. The meteorite is approximately 80 000 years old and its weight is more than 50 tons.

Namibia has the largest free-roaming cheetah population in the world - an estimated 2 500.