I've explored Namibia twice (so far) and if I had to name a single favourite country in the world it would probably be the one.
In 2008 my girlfriend & I hired a Nissan Tiida in Cape Town (SA), bought some cheap camping gear, explored most of the country save for the far north / skeleton coast which you need 4wd for. Hit 185kph a few times on those long straight highways thru the desert, had a big stinking male lion come lay down to rest in the shade of the vehicle in Etosha, right outside the open window, she could have put her arm out & petted it. Walked within 10m of Oryx in the dunes of Sossusvlei. Woke up on a farm to pet meerkats coming into our tent to play with us & snuggle in just like cats. Slept under the stars many a night, lived on boerewors on the braai and climbed a mountain in the the desert for sunset beers outside of Solitaire and that's where I proposed to her. Once I came round a corner and had tears spring to my eyes at the sheer physical beauty of the land, the likes of which I've never seen again.
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