Quivertree forest & Giant's Playground

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I. Description and Formalities to Quivertree Forest & Giants Playground

Quivertree Forest

The quiver tree forest at sunset

Giant's Playground

The Giants Playground is an amazing geological formation at some 5 km away.
The site is part of the same complex (s'ascquitter of admission to Quivertree Forest Camp) and deserves a ride.
When light becomes oblique, the play of shadows on the red rock piles offer an amazing spectacle.
Also a excellent opportunity to approach hyraxes , closest living relatives of elephants , who haunt these places.

Giant's Playground to Namibia

Formalities

Mesosaurus Fossil Site

II. Come to Quivertree Forest

Geographical location of Quivertree Forest

map of Quivertree Forest

III. Accommodation at Quivertree Forest & GiantsPlayground

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» Hotels and Lodges in Keetmanshoop :

Canyon Keetmanshoop Hotel Price: € 55

Canon Village Keetmanshoop Hotel Price on request

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IV. The Kokerboom

The quiver tree is a plant which would be interested and the most characteristic of hot, dry regions of Namibia and north-west province of South Africa in Cape Town.
Strictly speaking, this is not a tree, but a variant of aloe plant, whose botanical name is Aloe dichotoma.
Dichotoma refers to the forked branches and the plant is called "quiver" due to the use by the tribes of the Hottentots bark and branches robust and flexible to make quivers for their arrows. (Koker = quiver)

The quiver tree is a tree trunk and smooth thick jusu'a reaching one meter thick at the base and nine meters high.
They are generally only renontre and snow in large groups, giving the effect of a forest.
The quiver tree is propagated by seeds. It flowered for the first time at age 20 to 30 years.
The flowers are yellow and up to thirty centimeters in size during the flowering season, ie winter months of June and July.

Quiver Tree in namibia

The quiver tree especially in environments with high concentrations of black rocks (ysterklip) absorbing a large heat capacity (average summer temperature of 38 ° C).
The rocks are also used to anchor the tree with sprawling roots. In addition to the quiver tree is frost resistant.

The trees of the forest grow naturally, none having been planted by man.
Each has between 200 and 300 years of age. The quiver tree drill was declared a national monument June 1, 1955.

V. Photos of Quivertree Forest & GiantsPayground

VI. Climate of quivertree Forest & Giants Playqround

VII.Book on the kokerboom

- Into Kokerboom Country: Namaqualand's Jewish Pioneers

- Travel journal to Quivertree Forest and Giants Play's Ground