Sandboarding makes a post-COVID comeback in Namibia desert town
SET against miles of mesmerizing sand dunes, Namibia's seaside resort town of Swakopmund is seeing a boom in sandboarding, buoyed by a near-doubling of the numbers of cruise liners docking at nearby Walvis Bay last year. Lying between the 80,000 square km (31,000 square miles) Namib desert and the sea, Swakopmund is drawing tourists back, three years after lockdown brought Namibia's visitor numbers - previously around a million a year - to a standstill. Many of them are tempted by the thrill of this extreme sport, which involves sliding down sand dunes standing up or lying down on a board…