{"id":33835,"date":"2020-05-22T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/namibe\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:47:05","slug":"namibe","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/angola\/namibe","title":{"rendered":"Namibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Highlights in the Namibe Desert<\/h2>\n<p>On the coast, in the far southwest of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/africa\/angola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Angola,<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>bordering Namibia, lies \u00a0 the city of \u00a0 <strong>Namibe.<\/strong> Formerly known as Mo\u00e7ademes. This pleasant city has many beautiful Portuguese buildings and is located in the Namib Desert. For that reason, you will certainly notice the difference in climate. The <strong>Welwitchia Mirabillis,<\/strong> one of the strangest plants in the world, can be seen in the surrounding area. The plant has only two leaves and grows very slowly. On average, the plants are about 500 to 600 years old, but it is known that some specimens are as old as 2,000 years old. As the South African name &#8216;two-blaarkannie death&#8217; indicates, this plant has only two leaves.<\/p>\n<p>In namibe province, ocean, desert and savannah landscapes come together. Breathtakingly beautiful vistas \u00a0 glide past you. At the mouth of the <strong>Kunene<\/strong> River you will find bizarre landscapes, a great contrast to the spectacular coastal strip where sea turtles, dolphins, flamingos and pelicans live. In this region lies also the \u00a0 rugged<b> <a>Iona National Park<\/a><\/b>.<em>Where the world can&#8217;t find you&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wide variety of breathtaking landscapes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":23450,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[262],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-33835","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-angola","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233266,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33835\/revisions\/233266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}