Angola: Northern Namibe – Rocky Landscapes

North of Mocamedes, the landscape is full full of cliffs, mountains, and rocky plateaus – very different from the endless sands of the Namib Desert to the south. Rocky hills lie between the cold Atlantic Ocean and the highlands of southern Namibia. This is some of the most bizarre landscapes of the world – desolate, red and brown-colored with all the minerals, boasting strange climates of coastal fogs and extremely desert, and featuring some of the strangest plants on earth! And the scenery constantly changes as you approach the Atlantic coastline! And we even got super lucky to see a very large group of baboons crossing the road – these are the rather rare Ruacana subspecies of Chacma baboons, found only in the outskirts of the Namib Desert in Angola (rare) and Namibia (more common).