Dessert
Dessert Lodge
The place
Dessert in the Hardap region, Sesriem/Sossusvlei area (Namib-Naukluft NP, Namib Desert, Namibia), at 869 m elevation, in the Namib Desert. Part of the continuous Namibia cluster (batches 340-388). COUNTRY ANOMALY: Namibia is missing from the country table. A desert safari lodge camp at Sossusvlei (Namib-Naukluft NP, 49,000 km², established 1979, the 4th-largest national park in the world + Sossusvlei's red dunes, up to 325 m, Big Daddy, the highest in the world + Deadvlei, an iconic salt pan with 900-year-old fossilised camel-thorn (Acacia erioloba) trees + the Namib Desert, 80,000 km², the world's oldest desert at 55 million years + the heritage of the Nama/Herero/Damara peoples (Khoisan and Bantu peoples, 3 million in Namibia + the Nama, Khoikhoi, 250,000 + the Herero, Bantu, 240,000 + the Damara, Khoisan, 145,000 + the Herero and Nama genocide, 1904-1908, under the German Empire and Lothar von Trotha, 65,000-80,000 deaths, 80% of the Herero and 50% of the Nama, concentration camps at Shark Island, among the first of the 20th century + official German recognition in 2021 and an apology + the heritage of Sam Nujoma, born 1929, SWAPO, first president from 1990, independence from South Africa, the last colony to gain it).
The setting
Hardap, Sesriem/Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft NP, Namib Desert, Namibia, 869 m, Namib Desert; continuous cluster batches 340-388; desert safari lodge camp + Namib-Naukluft NP 49,000 km², established 1979, 4th-largest in the world + Sossusvlei red dunes up to 325 m, Big Daddy + Deadvlei, 900-year-old camel-thorn (Acacia erioloba) trees + Namib Desert, 80,000 km², world's oldest desert at 55 million years; Nama/Herero/Damara, Khoisan-Bantu, 3 million in Namibia + Nama Khoikhoi 250,000 + Herero Bantu 240,000 + Damara Khoisan 145,000 + Herero-Nama genocide 1904-1908, German Empire, von Trotha, 65,000-80,000 deaths, 80% of Herero, 50% of Nama, Shark Island concentration camps, among the first of the 20th century + German recognition 2021, apology + Sam Nujoma, born 1929, SWAPO, first president 1990, independence from South Africa, last colony; COUNTRY ANOMALY, Namibia missing.
