Namibia – A land of contrasts

Namibia is a vast, sparsely-populated country, offering spectacular landscapes.
It is fringed by the eerie beauty of the Skeleton Coast with its carcasses of shipwrecks, and by colonies of seals and penguins in the South.
Inland roll dunes of rich red sand, hundreds of metres high, while the Fish River Canyon, the world's second largest, shows off its millennial history with stunning striped bands of rock.
In the north east, the landscapes become lush and tropical. The Victorian architecture of abandoned mining towns shows the country's colonial German past, while huge national parks protect wildlife for the future, including the desert adapted elephants, a carefully nurtured cheetah population and the unique quiver tree.