The ring
Around the hollow.
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Brukkaros is a huge ring-shaped mountain rising alone above the dry plains of southern Namibia. A circle of red-brown slopes surrounds a broad hollow in its centre, rocky valleys run down from its rim, and a flat desert plain stretches to the horizon. The mountain is a collapsed caldera, a ring about 4 km across, formed some 80 million years ago by an explosion when rising magma met groundwater and superheated it. Its highest point is 1,590 m on the eastern rim; it rises more than 650 m above its surroundings, and the floor of the hollow lies 350 m below the rim. The Nama call it Geitsi Gubib. Quiver trees grow on the crater floor, and at the head of the valley a dry waterfall drops some 45 m after rain. You walk into the hollow along a narrow valley that cuts through the ring from the south, among rock walls and quiver trees, and climb to the rim for the view over the plain. The mountain is about 15 km northeast of the town of Berseba and about 86 km in a straight line northwest of Keetmanshoop. There is no drinking water or phone signal and the road is difficult, so carry enough water, and a four-wheel drive is best.
Around the hollow.
On the floor.
Over the plain.
Berseba Constituency, Karas Region, southern Namibia
On foot up the southern valley.
No, bring your own.