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May, 2025

Not so desolate after all

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Camdeboo National Park's name comes from a word that's tricky for non-Khoekhoe speakers to say (though it's fun to try). !Xamdeboo, with '!' pronounced as a click consonant, means 'green valley.' In sharp contrast, the park's signature feature—this 400-foot-tall mass of pillarlike diabase—is named the Valley of Desolation. A paved road leads park visitors to this stark stone sight, also a great place for surveying the Karoo scrubland where kudu, eland, and even the occasional Cape mountain zebra roam.
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