Our home for the night was the Namib Naukluft Lodge, one of two establishments located on a private desert reserve called Nam Hau Habitat. It is a 25,000-hectare nature park that spans the area between the Namib Desert and the Naukluft Mountains, and occupies a unique and diverse desert environment for its varied wildlife. Since its establishment in 1993, animals have been allowed to freely roam undisturbed there, and this desert has hosted a variety of wild game. Pumps ope

We were excited to see another famous canyon. Located approximately 4.5 kilometers from the Namib-Naufkluft National Park’s entrance gate, is Sesriem Canyon, the second most important tourist attraction in the area after Sossusvlei. It is eponymously named after “six leather straps” in Afrikaans. The settlers, who had to tie six ( ses ) leather straps ( riems ) together to create a rope long enough for a bucket to reach the water source down below, thought of this name. Sesri