Page 32 - Seniorstoday July 2022 Issue
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Travel
Naturally
Namibia
The love for wildlife gets Urvi Piramal to head to Namibia and appreciate
beauty in every small thing she sees and experiences.
I had the pleasure of visiting Namibia for Namibia is a fascinating and diverse
the second time in June this year. I was on country. It is a combination of beautiful
a 4500-kilometre road trip with a group of landscapes, including the world’s oldest
friends. desert, that will make you feel like you are
on another planet. The sparsely populated
country is teeming with zebra, elephants,
impala, spring bok, giraffes – a result of a
30-year-old environmental conservation
programme. The people are friendly, simple
and beautiful.
After a one-night halt to recoup from the
long journey of Mumbai to Windhoek
(pronounced as Win-took), the capital of
Namibia, our road trip begins…
Wildlife is my passion so I was very happy
that our first stop was Etosha National
Park which is home to the most wildlife
in the country. The name Etosha comes
from Oshimdonga, a word meaning great
Kapoor’s family is his strength
white place, and it refers to the 120km-long
All Photographs by Urvi Piramal geological basin, or hollow, heavy with salt
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