Next stop-Brandberg and the White Lady cave painting which actually isn't a white lady. As you can see, the terrain changed to mountains and we drove on dirt roads which were surprisingly in much better shape than Kenyan tarmac roads. It took about an hour to hike to the cave painting. The white lady portion was done around 5000 years ago and it is fading but still visible. It is now believed that the white lady is actually a witch doctor painted with powder from the white rocks in the area. There are also pictures of oryx, zebras, elephants and a hunting procession.
The next day we drove to the western Atlantic Ocean, stopped in the resort town of Swakopmund where we had a delicious fish lunch and stopped in at a museum with huge quartz stones as well as many other stones and gems mined in Namibia. We headed down the coast to Walvis Bay where we saw lots of flamingos and windsurfers.
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| The White Lady |
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| This was a weird sight-a wooden platform set up in the water to attract birds so the guano could be collected and sold. Fortunately, the wind was blowing away from us! |
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| In addition to flamingos, the area has a big salt mining operation |
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| I wasn't fast enough to capture the maneuvers on film but these windsurfers did some incredible acrobatics. |
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