Keetmanshoop Gallery

Quiver tree Forest at sunrise, Keetmanshoop, Namibia

The Quiver Tree Forest (Kokerboom Woud in Afrikaans) is a forest and tourist attraction of southern Namibia. It is located about 14 km north east of Keetmanshoop, on the road to Koes, on the Gariganus farm. It comprises about 250 specimens of Aloe dichotoma, a species of aloe that is also locally known as quiver tree (Afrikaans: kokerboom) because bushmen traditionally used its branches to make quivers. The forest is spontaneous, the tallest quiver trees are two to three centuries old. The forest was declared a national monument of Namibia on June 1, 1995

© Wendy Kaveney / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont.com

Aloe littoralis and Quiver trees (Aloe dichotoma). Formerly the hollowed out branches of these trees were used as quivers by the Bushmen. Quiver Tree forest near Keetmanshoop, Namibia

© Thomas Dressler

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Mule wagons crossing desert, South Africa, WW1

Mule wagons crossing the 500-mile waterless desert between Kimberley (Northern Cape, South Africa) and Keetmanshoop (now South Namibia, then German South West Africa) during the First World War. Date: 1915

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