Damaraland is one of the most interesting and dramatic regions in the country.

Highlights of the area include:

• The Brandberg - Namibia's highest mountain and home to the famous "White Lady" Bushman Painting.
• Twyfelfontein - a wonderful rocky outcrop with thousands of Bushman engravings.
• Spitzkoppe - a typical pointed inselberg, and the most well-known mountain in Namibia.
• The Petrified Forest - is millions of years old.
• The Vingerklip (finger rock) - a towering finger of limestone that rises 35m above its base.

Damaraland region is home to populations of the rare Desert Elephant, Oryx, Hartmann's Mountain Zebra as well as the endangered Black Rhinoceros. The desert elephants are uniquely adopted to extremely dry and sandy conditions - they have smaller bodies and larger feet than other elephants.

The Damara name is derived from the Nama word "Dama", meaning "who walked here". The Damara people were known to the Nama people by the footprints they left around waterhole's.

The total population of Damara people, one of the oldest cultural groups in the country, is approximately 90 000.