The stone men of Kaokoland are at the same time both mythical and very, very real. They only started appearing a few years ago scattered across the wild lands of north west Namibia. Here are the ones we found.
Most of them have tags on them with a number and a snippet of prose. No one is sure how many of them there are, but there are at least 40 gracing Kaokoland. Only about a few thousand people inhabit the rocky mountainous desert that is almost twice the size of Greece. We spent a couple of days bouncing along dry riverbeds, along rocky jeep tracks, and plowing through deep sand with only a handful of sightings of stone men, and only a handful more real men.
Rumors say that a white man in his sixties, who goes by the pseudonym "RENN" made them. He allegedly worked on constructing some luxury camps for tourists in Kaokoland. If you find all of the men, and put all the prose together in order, you will have the full story. Then you will be able to solve the puzzle, win a prize, get the treasure, or something of the sort. No one really knows.
I think the reward is in the finding and seeing.
