Twyfelfontein - Namibia

Getting a new African UNESCO site is always wonderful, getting a new African UNESCO written and sent from there is even better. Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes is one of the two UNESCO sites in Namibia. The card was sent by Marcel.

Twyfelfontein officially known as ǀUi-ǁaes, is a site of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia. This site has one of the largest concentrations of [...] petroglyphs, i.e. rock engravings in Africa.

 

 © 2022 by Suaithai

Most of these well-preserved engravings represent rhinoceros, . The site also includes six painteelephant, ostrich and giraffe, as well as drawings of human and animal footprintsd rock shelters with motifs of human figures in red ochre. The objects excavated from two sections, date from the Late Stone Age. The site forms a coherent, extensive and high-quality record of ritual practices relating to hunter-gatherer communities in this part of southern Africa over at least 2,000 years, and eloquently illustrates the links between the ritual and economic practices of hunter-gatherers. - in: https://whc.unesco.org

Namib Desert - Namibia

Two of my 3 cards from Namibia are from the Namib Desert, the only true desert in southern Africa. The 1st card was sent by Andrzej and the 2nd by Sandra. 

Mark Van Aardt Photography ©

The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. 

Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55–80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert in the world and contains some of the world's driest regions.

Photo by Harald Mielke © ADMOS Verlags-AG

The desert geology consists of sand seas near the coast, while gravel plains and scattered mountain outcrops occur further inland. The sand dunes, some of which are 300 metres (980 ft) high and span 32 kilometres (20 mi) long, are the second largest in the world after the Badain Jaran Desert dunes in China.

The Namib is almost completely uninhabited by humans except for several small settlements and indigenous pastoral groups, including the Ovahimba and Obatjimba Herero in the north, and the Topnaar Nama in the central region. - in: wikipedia

African Day

What a nice day, 2 new countries from Africa, Namibia and Senegal :)

This is my 1st official card from Africa. ZA - 2728 sent from South Africa by Sandy but the card is from Namibia.

This is the Damara dik-dik the smallest antelope in Namibia, only 30-40 cm's in height and 3-6 kg's weight.

This Senegal card was sent from Germany by Joana "neojojo". It shows the return of the fishermen in M'Bour. "M'Bour or Mbour is a town on the Petite Côte in Senegal, lying approximately 80 km south of Dakar. M'bour's harbour is the 2nd most important harbour in Senegal, after Dakar." - in wikipedia.