Namibia

Namibia is a land of haunting beauty and vast, silent spaces, where the desert is not merely a landscape but a living presence. It is home to the Namib, the world’s oldest desert, where the towering, apricot-hued dunes of Sossusvlei rise hundreds of feet against a deep blue sky. At Deadvlei, the bleached white clay pans and the skeletal remains of ancient camel thorn trees create a stark, surrealist gallery that has become an icon of the natural world. This is a country defined by its scale and its contrasts, from the shipwrecks haunting the fog-shrouded Skeleton Coast to the massive granite peaks of Spitzkoppe that erupt from the flat desert floor.