Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Kalahari Desert and Namaqualand

Reminiscent of our desert days in Xinjiang, we celebrated our 2nd year Xinjiang anniversary by going to another desert: the Kalahari.

It happened to be a 3-day weekend in SA so we took advantage of this and ventured into the Northern Province just bordering Namibia, driving through desolate lands, isolated farms, breathtaking mountain passes and fields upon fields of dazzling autumn flowers.











2 comments:

Anonymous said...

See the huge growths on the electricity poles, those are birds nests,quite amazing. And another weird thing in that area is that the dunes groan when you walk on them. Apparently a layer of air gets compressed just below the surface of the sand and when you walk on a slope the air is released and it sounds like the dune is groaning, very strange!

Bonthorn said...

yes, so strange indeed. The birds are called Weaver Birds.