Situated some 80 km west of Grünau, the Fish River Canyon starts about 30 km upstream of Ai-Ais Hot
Springs and winds its way more than 50 kilometres to the main view point on Farm Hobas. Altough a mere
trickle during the dry season, the Fish River over millions of years has managed to cut a 160 to 550 m deep
gorge through both the flat-lying Nama sediments of the Huns Plateau and the underlying deformed and
metamorphosed gneisses of the Namaqua Complex, which can be easily distinguished in the canyon walls.
Second in size and grandeur only to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona (USA), it is a national
monument, as well as one of the most popular tourist attractions in southern Namibia.