Joop Hessels took these photos in Namibia. Photo one shows the Fish River Canyon. The canyon is 161 km long, 24 kilometers wide and 550 meters deep. The quiver tree (photo 2 and 3) can reach a height of 4 meters and only grows in southern Namibia and in the northwest of South Africa. Near Keetmanshoop you can find a forest of quiver trees. The Namib-dessert (photo"s 5-11) stretches out along the Atlantic coast from the north of South Africa to southern Angola. At Sossusvlei (photo"s 6-9) you can walk through an empty river bedding. It brings you to the heart of the Namib-dessert. Photos 12-14 were made on a cheetah-farm. In many places in Africa the cheetah is threatened by extinction. Namibia has one of the largest cheetah populations in the world. Etosha (photos 15-25) is one of the big, well-known nature reserves in Southern Africa. Etosha Game park was declared a National Park in 1907 and covers an area of 22.270 square kilometres. It is home to 114 mammal species, 340 bird species, 110 reptile species, 16 amphibian species and, surprisingly, one species of fish. Etosha, meaning 'Great White Place", is dominated by a massive mineral pan. The pan is part of the Kalahari Basin, the floor of which was formed around 1000 million years ago. The Etosha Pan covers around 25 per cent of the National Park.
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