I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Oh no.

Amateur Traveler episode 689. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about sand dunes and deserts and hot air ballooning.

Zebras, giraffes, orixes, as we go to Namibia to Susus Flay and Namib Nachlov National Park.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Namibia. I'd like to welcome the show Carthic Aire, who is currently from

Boston but has come to talk to us about Namibia.

Carthik, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris. Good to be here.

Now you pitched me a region of Namibia we haven't talked about in the two episodes

that we have done on this South African country. Where are we going to talk about

today? The region of Namibia that I am keen to talk about today is a place called

sous flay. Sous flay is essentially a set of marshes that's located in the southern

part of the Namib Desert and it's basically a large salt and clay pan. So it's near where the Namib Desert

Abuts into the Kalahari and it's one of the many lays which actually means marsh, not valley, along with dead lay and hidden lay in the

namee desert.

Excellent.

And why should someone go to Namibia?

That's a great question.

Namibia is one of the largest countries in the world, which you might not realize if you just look at the map,

specifically when you really think about it, it brings to mind if you've ever seen the pictures of large

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