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along the way , to encounter the Welwitschia mirabilis , a plant that extends on the ground with its large leaves capable of living up to 2000 years .
At the entrance to the park we had to register , and where we learned that the petrol station in Torra Bay , the last inhabited offshoot on the Atlantic , closed its doors with the end of the fishing season just the day before our arrival . As luck would have it , there was a construction site along the road where it was possible to buy the petrol needed to reach Cape Cross , the promontory where the largest colony of fur seals in southern Africa lives . It ' s not really that close , almost two hundred kilometres , but the track had a magnificent salt surface made as smooth as a billiard table by the large tanks that pour sea water along the route without interruption .
It was a set of sounds and smells , what welcomed us the next day
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