Paul van Schalkwyk
FlyWestair Destinations
5 Cool Things To See
FROM THE AIR
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Paul van Schalkwyk
n a FlyWestair flight between Windhoek, Ondangwa, Oranjemund and Cape Town you get to see some stunning scenery from up high, ranging from expansive dune fields to famous Table Mountain and heaps of landmarks in between. Naming all the cool things to admire from above could probably fill an entire FlyWestair magazine. Here are five of them just to whet your appetite: A HUGE PAN On your way from Windhoek to Ondangwa that enormously large white thing you fly over just before landing is the Etosha Pan. At 130 km long and up to 50 km wide in places, it is Africa’s largest salt pan and can even be seen from space. The pan is also the main feature of Etosha National Park, which is home to 114 mammal and 340 bird species. Ready for a stop-over? DESERT SAND On the Windhoek to Oranjemund route you fly over some desert sand. Well, actually loads of sand. The Namib Desert is the oldest desert in the world and stretches for 1900 km along the Atlantic Coast, from Namibe in Angola all the way down to the Olifants River in the Western Cape in South Africa. The flight will take you over some extraordinary landscapes of black and blue mountains surrounded by red sand and dunes to the west.
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