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Sand dune kayaking – is this a new sport?

Kayaking across the sand dunes of the Namib desert

Who needs rivers when we have sand dunes. If the world runs out of water, at least we won't run out of one water sport. Kayaking. Well, it's true that it won't be a water sport anymore, so we won't be deprived of such pleasures, because kayaking "on" sand dunes seems just as exciting as on (wild) waters. This was proven to us by experienced kayaker Eric Walter, who is no stranger to descents over the highest waterfalls in the world. Well, this time he was in a hurry in the Namib desert of Africa, where there was neither spirit nor hearing about water.

Yes you can on sand dunes we ski and snowboard like on the white slopes, you probably already know, but you probably don't know that we can also go down them by kayak and we perform maneuvers worthy of going down a raging river. This was proven by an experienced kayaker Eric Walker, which chased itself across the sand dunes of Africa the Namib desert, which stretches for two thousand kilometers along the Atlantic coast.

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Kayaking on sand dunes is just as exciting and wild as whitewater kayaking.
Kayaking on sand dunes is just as exciting and wild as whitewater kayaking.

Although Walker is used to it raging rivers and wild waterfalls, did Red Bull sent with a group of friends to places where water is only in the form of a mirage. A an experienced kayaker that didn't faze, much less stop him from doing what he does best with his kayak and paddles. Gliding across the surface and performing wild maneuvers. Is sand dune kayaking a new sport?

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