![]() We had trouble locating the entrance gate to the walking path. It's not really a forest but a dense stand of Quivertrees spread around rock hills. The Quivertree Forest is nice and makes for some great photos against the blue sky. This all might sound funny, but it wasn't not knowing where you are with the temperature 36 C. Our guess is that some jokester removed some of the path signs and they have not been replaced. Luckily, we were able to spot the brown water tower off in the distance and walked in that direction to eventually get back to the parking lot. After 20 long minutes of this wandering, we eventually climbed to the top of a tall rock to try to get some perspective. ![]() No one else was there when we visited in the late afternoon so calling out to others was futile. It's easy to walk in the complete wrong direction and not really know where you are. All you can see are more and more rock piles. The walking path is set below all the rocks so it's impossible to see the horizon to help locate where you are. All the rock constellations, while beautiful, look the same after a while and it's nearly impossible to remember if you passed them before (some seemed staged while others are amazingly authentic). With no signs, we soon became disoriented and didn't know which way to go. While it proceeds in a right-hand circle around the site, it also twists and turns all the time. But after a while the signs stopped and the main path branched off to here and there. It starts out fine with a couple of white arrow signs pointing in the right direction. The danger here is that the circular path through the stones is not well marked. A tall brown water tower stands next to it. There's a parking lot with a nice modern toilet. It's located off a gravel road 5 km north of the Quivertree Forest (same entrance fee). There’s more information here on my future Namibia photography holidays where we’ll spend more time taking Quiver tree forest Namibia pictures.Giant's Playground is a maze of stone piles that seemingly stretches on forever. Rock Hyrax catching some of the last rays of sun.Īn early morning s ilhouette of the Quiver trees just before the sun was above the horizon. Quiver tree lit just by torch from my Iphone.Įarly morning I was using my GoPro to film some timelaspe of the light changing on the Quiver Trees when a Pied Crow came right up and stared in the lens which produced this unusual image. Long exposure taken using a Nikon D4 with an 18-35mm lens 110 second shutter speed F4 ISO 800. The sequence of photos is then layered in the brilliant software StarStax which is available here. I illuminated the Quiver trees with a short brush of light just using the torch on my Iphone for a couple of seconds. ![]() My shot above is a series of 200 photos with each shot at a 30 second exposure, ISO 1000, F4 on a Nikon D4. The quiver tree forest is a great place for star trail photography. The orange glow is the light from Keetmanshoop in the distance. The above photo was taken using a Nikon D4 with an 18-35mm lens 83 second shutter speed F4 ISO 800. ![]() The nearest place to stay is the Quiver tree forest rest camp which is a short walk from this area. Near to the small town of Keetmanshoop in southern Namibia there is a Quiver tree forest with over 250 of these incredible plants condensed into quite a small area. Quiver trees ( Aloe dichotoma) aren’t actually trees at all and belong to a group of Aloe succulent plants. ![]() Below are a few pictures from the shoot including information on how and where these photos were taken. If you love stars and photography then this area is fantastic as you’ll have very little light pollution. A few days ago I spent the night in the Quiver tree forest in Namibia which is utter heaven for photographers. ![]()
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