The Caprivi Strip
The 280-mile-long panhandle known as Namibia's Caprivi Strip only exists as is because Germans thought the Zambezi would lead to the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately the Victoria Falls got in the way - but today this does provide the benefit of acting as a gateway to Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls and Botswana's Chobe National Park. Stretching improbably eastward toward Zimbabwe the Caprivi Strip is typified by expanses of mopane and terminalia broadleaf forest, punctuated by shonas or fossilised parallel dunes that are the remnants of a drier climate.
