GuardTrailsDay 3 of 27 · Keetmanshoop · The Classic Southern Namibia & Namib Desert Loop
Day 3 — Quiver Tree Forest & Giant's Playground
An active day to your new base in Keetmanshoop, with 2 h 30 on the road and little free time.
Stage 3 · Keetmanshoop · Namibia
We sleep at Quivertree Forest Rest Camp, 600 m away
day 3 1 night 2 h 30 on the road234 kmclimate favourable
Interest of the place — nature 15. Based on: forest; forest reached from the stage (Quiver Tree Forest).
- programme
- 7 h
- road
- 2 h 30
- usable window
- 10 h 48
- Exploration of the Quiver Tree ForestInterest nature 15★★☆☆☆ · known in 9 languages — article “Quiver Tree Forest”“The Quiver Tree Forest (Kokerboomwoud in Afrikaans) is a forest and tourist attraction of southern Namibia about 14 km north-east of Keetmanshoop on the road to Koës. It comprises about 250 specimens of Aloidendron dichotomum, a species that is also locally known as the quiver tree (Afrikaans: kokerboom) because the San people traditionally used its branches to make quivers.” — after Wikipedia3 h
- Scrambling through Giant's Playground rock formationsInterest nature 154 h
Bad-weather option — same kind — Sunset hike to the volcanic Mesosaurus Fossil Site
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On the way
Stops beside the road, chosen for their small detour — we say they are on the way, we do not promise to go through them.
Mariental
A convenient town stop to observe the local arid landscape and replenish supplies.
45 min there · no detour · View on Google Maps
© photographed in 2005 by The original uploader was Kristianf at German Wikipedia — CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Keetmanshoop
The gateway to the south where one can observe the transition into the quiver tree habitat.
40 min there · detour +26 km · View on Google Maps
© photographed on 13 October 2019 by Reinhard Kraasch — CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
