We headed north of the Sesriem Canyon to see samples of the Welwitschia Mirabilis plants. When we asked what was so special about it, our guide explained by way of repeating what the Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (whose name escapes me) said to his audience when this plant was first presented to him in England in 1863. “It is out of the question the most wonderful plant ever brought to this country, and one of the ugliest,” he said apparently. That got us i