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With only 2.1 persons per square kilometre and a population of roughly 1.8million, Namibia is a sparsely populated country and after Mongolia, it is the second least populated country in the world today. From the Ovambo and Herero tribes (the latter of which are admired for their colorful Victorian dress and hats) to the semi-nomadic OvaHimba and the nomadic San Bushmen, Namibia boasts cultural and historical flavor to the fullest. German colonization left its own imprint on the southern African nation with German being widely spoken today.
At the same time, if you want to journey through the 'end of the Earth', then the Skeleton Coast of Namibia will bring any preconceived notions about Africa to a screeching halt. With sand dunes towering 100 meters / 300 feet behind the shore and the fact that there is nothing man-made - other than shipwrecks dotting the coast - for a hundred miles in every direction, then the Skeleton Coast will seem more like a mirage than real life. With the highest sand dunes in the world, and the only desert where you can find large mammals like desert elephants, rhinos, lions, oryx and giraffes, Namibia is one of the most alluring and surprising countries in Africa.
At the same time, if you want to journey through the 'end of the Earth', then the Skeleton Coast of Namibia will bring any preconceived notions about Africa to a screeching halt. With sand dunes towering 100 meters / 300 feet behind the shore and the fact that there is nothing man-made - other than shipwrecks dotting the coast - for a hundred miles in every direction, then the Skeleton Coast will seem more like a mirage than real life. With the highest sand dunes in the world, and the only desert where you can find large mammals like desert elephants, rhinos, lions, oryx and giraffes, Namibia is one of the most alluring and surprising countries in Africa.
