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The Indifferent Desert — real places & people

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Places of awe

The Kuiseb canyon — the schist gorge that hid two geologists for two and a half years.

The Kuiseb canyon — the schist gorge that hid two geologists for two and a half years.
The Kuiseb canyon — the schist gorge that hid two geologists for two and a half years.

Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Namib dunes — the oldest desert on Earth, the sheltering and the killing one.

The Namib dunes — the oldest desert on Earth, the sheltering and the killing one.
The Namib dunes — the oldest desert on Earth, the sheltering and the killing one.

Yathin S Krishnappa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Namib gravel plains and fog-belt — water out of the air when there is none in the ground.

The Namib gravel plains and fog-belt — water out of the air when there is none in the ground.
The Namib gravel plains and fog-belt — water out of the air when there is none in the ground.

Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Swakopmund and Walvis Bay — the coast they arrived on in 1935, fleeing one war into another.

Swakopmund and Walvis Bay — the coast they arrived on in 1935, fleeing one war into another.
Swakopmund and Walvis Bay — the coast they arrived on in 1935, fleeing one war into another.

Daniel Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Things of wonder (made by hand)

Welwitschia mirabilis — a living fossil that drinks the fog and outlives empires.

Welwitschia mirabilis — a living fossil that drinks the fog and outlives empires.
Welwitschia mirabilis — a living fossil that drinks the fog and outlives empires.

Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The gemsbok — the desert game the two men hunted to stay alive, and kept observing as they starved.

The gemsbok — the desert game the two men hunted to stay alive, and kept observing as they starved.
The gemsbok — the desert game the two men hunted to stay alive, and kept observing as they starved.

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The quiver tree (kokerboom) — the arid country's own architecture.

The quiver tree (kokerboom) — the arid country's own architecture.
The quiver tree (kokerboom) — the arid country's own architecture.

Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Peoples, in their own dress

The Topnaar (ǂAonin) Nama of the lower Kuiseb — the people who belong to that river.

The Topnaar (ǂAonin) Nama of the lower Kuiseb — the people who belong to that river.
The Topnaar (ǂAonin) Nama of the lower Kuiseb — the people who belong to that river.

NASA Earth RIght Now, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Nama dress — a living people of the Namib's edges.

Nama dress — a living people of the Namib's edges.
Nama dress — a living people of the Namib's edges.

Shark studio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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