AT#466 - Travel to Namibia's Skeleton Coast

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Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hear about travel to Namibia's Skeleton Coast as the Amateur Traveler talks again to Susan Portnoy of theinsatiabletraveler.com about her trip to this memorable reagion of Africa. Namibia is the size of France and Great Britain combined but with only 2 million people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Amateur Travel Guide is sponsored by DK Eyewitness Travel Guides.
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0:27.0	amateur traveler episode 466 today the amateur traveler talks about wind-swept desert landscapes, visiting the
0:36.2	semi-nomadic hymna people, and seeing the desert black rhino as we go to
0:42.0	the skeleton coast of Namibia.
0:47.0	Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We'll be hearing more from our primary sponsor
0:54.2	DK Eyewitness Travel Guides as we go along but first let's hear about
0:58.5	Namibia. I'd like to welcome back to the show Susan Portnoy who's come to talk to us about
1:06.7	the skeleton coast of Namibia. Susan welcome back to the show.
1:10.3	Hey Chris nice to be here thank you and I say welcome back to the show not that long ago
1:15.2	we were talking about yet another place in Africa and talking about going and
1:20.9	taking pictures of wildlife which I suspect is going to come up again today.
1:25.0	Yes, absolutely, but truthfully, my destination, which was the skeleton coast of Namibia,
1:32.0	wildlife wasn't the foremost on my mind as it was
1:36.2	in Tim Bavotti, South Africa when we first spoke. Can you put the skeleton coast on
1:40.9	the map for us? Absolutely.
1:43.0	The skeleton coast is in the northwest of Namibia along the Atlantic Ocean.
1:48.1	It is the desert there is literally the oldest desert in the world. It's very formidable and spectacular and
1:57.0	has some of the most unique topography you'll ever see anywhere you go on the planet.
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