Fish River Canyon
May 2004

"Nowhere else in Africa will you find anything quite like Fish River Canyon.  Fish River has been gouging out this gorge for aeons, with stunning results.  The chasm measures 160km in length and up to 27km in width, and the dramatic inner canyon reaches a depth of 550m.  The early San people had a legend that the wildly twisting Fish River Canyon was gouged out by a frantically scrambling snake, Koutein Kooru, as he was pursued into the desert by hunters." --Lonely Planet Namibia