Maps are wonderful things and I love drawing them. The map on the right was sketched in 2013 on my first journey to Namibia. It shows an area of the Skeleton Coast near Puros, a small community in the northwestern desert of Kaokoland. The middle image above shows a 'moons  view' of the same area.

On both images there is a mountain named 'Cannot Climb with Assegai'. Robbin, a local guide, told me that it is so called because, a very, very, long time ago  a warrior, carrying his assegai, tried to climb the sheer summit cliff and slipped  falling onto his spear.

Many of the place names have a message for travellers that you ignore at your peril. Traveller beware ....... here be dragons!

Namibia - has a landmass nearly three times the size of the UK, with a estimated population of just over 2 million souls. London alone has a population of 8.6 million.