Kaokoland

Kaokoland is one of Africa's last true wilderness frontiers — a vast, rugged region of mountainous terrain, dry riverbeds, and stark desert beauty in Namibia's far northwest. It is the ancestral home of the semi-nomadic Himba people, who maintain their traditional way of life largely untouched by modernity. The region supports remarkable desert-adapted wildlife including elephants, lions, giraffes, and Hartmann's mountain zebras that survive in the arid riverbeds of the Kunene, Hoarusib, and Hoanib rivers. Epupa Falls on the Kunene River, near the Angolan border, is one of Namibia's most spectacular natural features. Kaokoland offers raw adventure travel at its most authentic.