Sperrjibiet National Park
Namibia, 72 kilometers north of Luderitz
Description:
Sperrjibiet (Shperrgebit) in German means "no-go zone". In this place, in southwestern Namibia, diamonds used to be mined. This area is located on the border with South Africa 72 kilometers north of Luderitz.
Spergebit National Park was founded in 2004 and covers an area of 26,000 square kilometers. Most of the area is still banned despite the establishment of a national park.
The park has a wide range of fauna and flora, as for 100 years there has been extremely low human intervention. About forty percent is occupied by the desert landscape, thirty percent are pastures and the rest of the area is represented by rocky terrain. The height of the highest point of the park is 1488 meters.