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Namibia UNESCO world heritage sites

Erongo region [capital = Swakopmund]

Namib Sand Sea in Namib-Naukluft National Park on c28
It features gravel plains, coastal flats, rocky hills, inselbergs within the sand sea, a coastal lagoon and ephemeral rivers, resulting in a landscape of exceptional beauty. Fog is the primary source of water in the site, accounting for a unique environment in which endemic invertebrates, reptiles and mammals adapt to an ever-changing variety of microhabitats and ecological niches.

Kunene region [capital = Opuwo]

Rock engravings in Twyfelfontein at S20 35 44.1 E14 22 21.3
The site forms a coherent, extensive and high-quality record of ritual practices relating to hunter-gatherer communities in this part of southern Africa over at least 2,000 years, and eloquently illustrates the links between the ritual and economic practices of hunter-gatherers.