Sources thermales du Kaokoland

The Kaokoland Thermal Springs are geothermal sites in the remote Kunene Region of northwestern Namibia, in the ancient desert homeland of the Himba people — one of Africa's last semi-nomadic pastoralist societies maintaining traditional ochre body painting, ancestral cattle herding, and sacred fire (okuruuo) cultural practices in one of the world's most extreme arid environments. The oligomineral-sulfurous springs emerge in the Kaokoland's landscape of rugged quartzite mountains, ephemeral rivers, and desert-adapted elephant populations in the Skeleton Coast and Hoanib watershed systems. Visiting these remote springs involves journeys through some of the most accessible true wilderness remaining in southern Africa, where wildlife encounters with desert-adapted lions, elephants, and black rhinos are possible in a landscape that has changed little since the prehistoric rock engravings of Twyfelfontein were carved thousands of years ago.