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Fish River Canyon National Park
Nowhere else in Africa is there anything like Fish River Canyon. The Fish River, which joins the Orange River 76 km South of the Canyon has been gouging out this gorge for aeons, with stunning results. Although the Namibian tourist literature claims that it’s the world’s second largest canyon, after Arizona’s Grand Canyon it’s in fact well down the list but that makes it no less awe-inspiring. The chasm now measures 160 km in length and up to 127 km in width, and the dramatic inner canyon reaches a depth of 550m.
The Fish River typically flows between March and April. Early in the tourist season from April to June it normally diminishes to a mere trickle and later in the winter to just a chain of remnant pools along the canyon floor. Read the rest of this entry »
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