Text and photographs by Yvette Cardozo
Vol. 13. No. 6
Running a few steps, I launched myself onto a waxed Formica snowboard which sent me plummeting into a screaming freefall down a huge sand dune. In Namibia, sandboarding, on your stomach, or for the more expert, on your feet, is huge.
You would expect this southwestern African country, made famous by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, to offer safari viewing typical of the usual Africa experience … elephants, giraffes, lions, zebras. I never considered that it could be considered the adventure capital of the continent-complete with crazy adrenaline-washed visitors sliding down sand dunes on snowboards, traversing or sidehilling on ATVs, camel trekking, parasailing…. Oh yes, and even hugging a three hundred pound seal.