On the farm Bertram stands the "Fingerklipp" (35 m tall). You can walk to the foot of it. There you will have a very nice view of the Ugab-terraces in form of table-mountains along the Ugab valley. | ||
Fingerklipp | Ugab-terraces |
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In the west of Khorixas, the capital of this homeland, you can find two petrified woods, one of it organized for tourists and the other not. The petrified trees are ca. 300 million years old. They probably washed ashore to this place of discovery. We visited both. | ||
A piece of petrified wood | ||
A petrified tree in the second wood | ||
The walk to the rock engravings in Twyfelfontein begins at the ruins of the former farmhouse. The engravings are between 500 and 10.000 years old and are the most famous of Namibia. | ||
Rock engravings | ||
The "Organ-pipes" are pillars out of basalt. They came to being ca. 120 million years ago. | ||
Valley of Organ-pipes |