episode description
The sheer enormity and monumental scale of the Namib Desert leaves no doubt that this 55 million year old landscape reigns supreme as Africa’s most magnificent, untamed wilderness. Spanning over 80 000 kilometres, it’s a bizarre domain, where middle-earth meets mars in a heart-stopping array of distinct realms. Its immense beauty is matched only by the unbridled hostility of Mother Nature’s displays. Creating an unparalleled stage, on which to witness the dramatic and daily life-and-death dramas of desert wildlife play out. Standing on the rim of the Fish River Canyon, second only to the Grand Canyon in size, sweeping vistas paint a portrait of a world made in anger, stained with hostility and seemingly without end. Sheer cliffs and jagged rocky outcrops, the colour of dried blood, drop vertically down for hundreds of meters. Unsettled rocks disappear from view, only to be heard smashing into the unforgiving valley below. This isolated world is a modern-day Jurassic Park, home to the desert’s last remaining dinosaurs!
