Summary Namibia: a country of 824.292 square kilometers and about 2,5 millions of inhabitants: also a country of great spaces: Pierre Lemaire, a glider pilot enjoys planing above the desert. Majiedt Boetie and Walter Krohne are conducing a freight train : a special team is observing the sand storms and takes off the sand from the railway tracks.There are also special places in the desert: "Solitaire", a gasoline station: its was a farm created by South Africans, then they began to offer rooms and gasoline for the travelers.Namibia has big national parks: in the north-west in the Damaraland, the park is managed by a conservancy association: Memory Ganuses, manager of the lodge explains how works the conservancy association (now there are 86 areas under this conservancy system).Namibia is also a place for new opportunities: Bernarhard Walther and his wife Marita Walther are managing Ebikes4Africa: a factory of electric bikes and also solar panels (for the batteries of the bikes).On the countryside Henzel Feris manages a farm of 420 hectares breeding goats and sheep ; Morten and Billy Dunn are growing strawberries (before the strawberries were imported from South Africa).Now some words about the journey of Sophie: flight over the Namib desert in a hot air balloon (piloted by Laurent Rommelaere).Then Sophie meets her guide Mose Gereseb: they go to the National Park of Namib-Naukluft, near the road they can see the oryx gazella (also called gemsbok) and later they visit a 30 meters deep canyon.Then they go to Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert where they climb a dune and look at the Dead Vlei (Dead lake) with its dried tree trunks.Arriving at Windhoek Moses explains the story of Namibia, the German period and later the South African period (apartheid).Then Moses and Sophie travel to the Etosha National park (22.000 square kilometers): the see the kory bustard (a big bird), zebras, gnus, giraffes, elephants and the huge nest of the sociable weavers.Later Sophie meets Stéphanie Periquet, a French scientist who is observing the fauna of the Ongava Reserve with camera-traps.Then Sophie meets Paul Tangeni Ndjamburla (a bike tour promoter) at Sandwich Harbour where the dunes of the Namib desert end into the sea, the Atlantic Coast is a good place for surfing. They go to Swapkomund: riding their bicycle the visit the historical center of the town, the township ( where Paul was born) and they eat oysters on the pier.In the dunes near the town Ernst Areseb is a guide who shows to the tourists the life of the small animals in the sand (the famous Namib sand gecko).Later Sophie meets Herman Ariseb of the Topnaar community and discovers a desert melon called nara, a plant with deep roots which produces a fruit with yellow-orange pulp: the seeds are also edible and can be transformed into oil.Finallly Sophie meets Stanley Mareka, a dancer and choreographer who manages its own dance company and often helps the children of a school and their neighbors with food donations.

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