Things to do
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Dragon's Breath Cave
Air rushing out of a narrow opening gave this cave its name, and beneath it lies a body of water that counts as the world's largest known non subglacial underground lake. Explorers reached it in 1986. Entry is restricted to permitted expeditions, so what a visitor sees is the entrance and the surrounding karst.
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Hoba Meteorite
A slab of iron and nickel weighing about sixty tonnes lies where it landed, the largest known meteorite on the planet. A farmer struck it while ploughing in 1920. Cutting and souvenir hunting took pieces off it before it was declared a monument, and a stone amphitheatre has since been built around it.
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Otjikoto Lake
A limestone cavern roof collapsed and left a near circular sinkhole filled with water of uncertain depth, one of only two natural lakes in the country. German forces dumped artillery and ammunition into it while retreating in 1915. Divers have recovered some of it and the rest is still down there.
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Tsumeb Museum
Housed in a colonial school building, the collection covers what came out of the ground here, including several minerals recorded nowhere else on earth. The Khorab room holds the weapons raised out of Otjikoto, laid out corroded and unrestored. Local history and ethnography fill the remaining rooms.
