Things to do
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Groot Spitzkoppe
Groot Spitzkoppe's bare granite rises about 700 metres straight out of a flat gravel plain. Sleep at the campsite at its foot, and you can watch it turn orange and pink at sunset and again at sunrise.
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Spitzkoppe Community Campsite
Pitches are scattered among the boulders with no neighbours in sight, run by the local conservancy and paying into it. Most have a long drop and a fireplace and nothing else, so water and food come in with the vehicle. Sleeping out among the granite is the whole reason to stay.
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Bushmans Paradise
San painters worked an overhang in an enclosed basin reached by a chained scramble up the rock face. Vandalism has damaged much of what survives, so a conservancy guide now accompanies visits. The basin itself holds trees and grass that grow nowhere else on the massif, which is how it got the name.
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Spitzkoppe Rock Arch
Weathering has left a slender bridge of granite spanning a gap in the rock, low enough to walk up to and photograph against the plain behind. It sits a short scramble from the track. Late afternoon puts the sun through the opening, and the arch is the most photographed thing on the massif.
