Peter H.M. Brooks

Slow Eddy <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > Philip wrote:
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    > As for Luderitz, I suppose you've heard that the ghost town of Kolmanskuppe,
    > a few kays inland is meant to be interesting. I've never been there, but
    > friends raved about it.
I missed this post - it arrived after I'd left.

In the Namibian National Gallery (a rather small '60s building,
without a lot to recommend it) there was an exhibition of photographs
by a father and his daughter. The write-up was quite sweet, all about
the drama of experimenting with digital photography, something I'd
thought most people, who were interested in photography, would have
been doing about a decade ago. The photographs were generally very
good though. There was a whole series on Kolmanskuppe that gave a very
good feeling of the place and an idea of why it was, in a strange way,
beautiful. We did think of going, but it was quite a bit out of our
way - and the road back to SA was a minor one - so we gave it a miss.
If I were to do the trip again, or make a recommendation to anybody,
on the strength of the photographs, I'd recommend going to
Kolmanskuppe rather than the Fish River Canyon.

For a geologist the Fish River Canyon must be lots of fun. It is
starkly attractive, and I'm pleased to have seen it, but, as great
sights of the world go, it's certainly pretty low down the list - well
below the Drakensberg.
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    > On your return journey, near Keetmans is a place I think they call the
    > "Giant's Playground". Just a bunch of huge boulders amid kokerbome, but I
    > quite liked it. You'd have to ask at info to get better directions.
I loved the scenery in that area.
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    > Perhaps draw one of Lawrence Green's Namibia-centred travelogues from the
    > library? It'd make a nice read for the trip, and perhaps give some tips.
I'll look it up for future reading.