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After what amounts to a perfunctory briefing and token explanation of how to operate my manual six-geared beast, I speed off into this sandy playground, throwing myself into the belly of dunes, before hurling my machine up their sides and riding the ridges.
This is no gentle trundle around the park the sea of dunes that make up the Namib Desert can reach heights of around 325m. That s why the most popular sport in these parts is sandboarding daredevils often hit speeds of 80kmph rental car orlando florida as they slide down.
Hemmed by the blustery Atlantic and the Skeleton Coast (so-named for the whale and seal bones that covered the shore when the whaling industry was active), this area is usually accessed from the seaboard town of Swakopmund, which has a reputation as Southern Africa s adventure centre to uphold. And it does not disappoint.
It has gone from being oppressed under SA s apartheid rule to introducing a parliamentary democracy as Namibia and, in an even more progressive move, is one of the few countries in the world to have conservation and protection of natural resources in its constitution.
This fascinating blend of preserving tradition and moving forwards with the modern world is perhaps encompassed most surreally in my next adventure. Scoring an invite into the homes of the Himba people is often a highlight for travellers to Namibia.
This ethnic group of cattle herders has pointedly welcomed tourism in recent years and, unlike many cultural villages on the tourist trail, where tribespeople are bussed in for a day of trite ceremonial dancing to amuse visitors, the Himba welcome backpack-saddled wanderers into their real homes.
Because I ve doggedly driven through miles of featureless scrub to Otjikandero Himba Orphan Village Project in Kaokoland, northern Namibia, rental car orlando florida to meet Jaco Burger, a white Afrikaans goat farmer, local chief of the black semi-nomadic Himba people, and gay rights campaigner.
The story of this thirty-something, openly gay farmer rental car orlando florida is pure Hollywood. As a child, Burger struck up friendships with Himba workers on his father s farm, and later in life was adopted into the tribe by a chief.
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