04-05-2015, 09:06 PM
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Re: A few photos from Namibia
Originally Posted by Mups
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Great pictures Ania, loved all the elephants especially. The Dead Valley pictures gave me the creeps though, what an awful desolate place. Do you know the history of it?
About 1000 years ago there used to be water there. Then the dunes formed and cut off the water flow to the area so it dried up. The trees died, but as there is not even enough moisture in the air for them to rot they have stayed standing and been scorched by the sun.
04-05-2015, 11:33 PM
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Re: A few photos from Namibia
Originally Posted by orangutan
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I know what you mean, but if you are actually there it has an incredible stark beauty. The pictures don't do it justice.About 1000 years ago there used to be water there. Then the dunes formed and cut off the water flow to the area so it dried up. The trees died, but as there is not even enough moisture in the air for them to rot they have stayed standing and been scorched by the sun.
Thankyou. I never knew that. Isn't nature strange sometimes.
04-05-2015, 11:33 PM
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Re: A few photos from Namibia
Originally Posted by orangutan
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For anyone interested, I'm posting a few photos from my wonderful Namibian trip. I started off in the Namib Desert in the south, where the light was constantly changing on the sea of dunes and there was sporadic wildlife passing:There is a fascinating bird called the social weaver, and they build huge nests together, getting bigger with each generation:
Some passing wildlife:
And the stunning Dead Valley where ancient dead trees still stand amidst the dunes:
05-05-2015, 09:48 AM
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Re: A few photos from Namibia
Originally Posted by orangutan
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Sorted! I messed up the image posting at first.(Why is it that if you manually copy and paste the image address it doesn't work, even though it appears to insert exactly the same as when you 'copy image address'???)
So interesting. (the photos - not the problem)
05-05-2015, 01:37 PM
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Re: A few photos from Namibia
Fantastic photos thanks for sharing, really want to go now, the landscape is so unique, like nowhere else on earth.You captured it so well in the pictures.
The poaching is terrible, rhino horn is worth more than gold now, elephants are being poached too. It's thought there may be virtually no large animals left in the wild in 20 year just a few in reserves.
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