Stunning Desert. The Kalahari Desert is a huge area of land that extends from the Northern Cape of South Africa up into Botswana and Namibia. It is believed to be some 500 million years old and is home to a number of fossils that have fascinated researchers for decades. It measures almost a million square kilometres.
Mud Island River Park, located on the south end of the island, opened to the public in 1982. It is located within the Memphis city limits, 1.2 miles from the coast of downtown, and houses a museum, restaurants, and an amphitheater.
Offering relief from the Mud Island heat is the air-conditioned Mississippi River Museum. It trumpets its 18 galleries and 5,000 artifacts covering 10,000 years of history, but we were impressed by its unexpected population of wax dummies.