Date: 27.02.1998 - 18.03.1998, area south of Etosha National Park and along the rivers of Kuiseb, Swakop and Ugab: "I'm a student of Geography at the University of Regensburg and recently we went on a field trip to Namibia with our Professor, Mr. Klaus Heine. He is very familiar with the local climatic and geomorphological conditions there, and according to his experience and our observations the land currently suffers from a severe lack of precipitation. Although we went to Namibia during the actual rain season, the land look dry as if we were right in the middle of the dry season. According to the statements of some farmers down there and to newspaper articles and headlines, rain is extremely necessary and desperately sought for."--Marcus Aunkofer <marcus.aunkofer@stud.uni-regensburg.de