Wedged between the Kalahari and the chilly South Atlantic, Namibia has deserts, seascapes, bushwalking and boundlessness. Blessed with natural resources, a solid modern infrastructure and diverse traditional cultures, it is a beautiful country of vast potential.

Virtually devoid of rocks and stones, the Kalahari Desert is the largest surface of sand in the world. In large part it is semi-desert. Only the southernmost part is arid enough to be called desert, with average annual rainfall of five inches (125 mm). Rain takes the form of fugitive thunderstorms in summer when the weather gets extremely hot. The sand forms a porous layer on top of clay and bedrock, holding few nutrients. As rainwater rapidly drains down through it, little moisture remains behind to sustain vegetation. In much of the Kalahari the sand is red because of a layer of iron oxide which coats its quartzite grains. The colour fades to pink or grey where rainfall is sufficient to leach out the iron oxide. In riverbeds and pans the sand is white. Summer temperatures climb to over 40ºC (105ºF) but can fall to below freezing at night.

Samehaling has a variety of landscape from dolomite rock formation and `rantjies’ to red sand dunes and savannah grass. The sand dunes are on average 40m apart with a maximum height of 25m. Loose sand makes it very difficult for animals to graze here. Samehaling Dorpers are bred to thrive here.