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