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Covering almost 50000 km², the Namib-Naukluft National Park is one of the largest national parks in Africa, protecting one of the oldest deserts on earth. The Namib’s scenery is stunning and its wildlife fascinating, though you need time to stop and observe it. The landscape boasts with impressive sand dunes, pans, gravel plains and mountain outcrops. The Namib is a must and a place that really knocked my socks of.
 

The most famous area in the national park and one of Namibia’s major tourist draws is the area around Sossusvlei. It offers classic desert scenery with enormous apricot dunes, canyons and magical moonscapes. The road from Sesriem to Sossusvlei offers huge dunes on either sides with oryx, springbok and ostrich sightings. Probably the most fascinating spot in the Namib is Dead Vlei, which is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world and harbours black lifeless trees that died because the river was blocked by wandering sand dunes.
 

Come here in the morning or late afternoon when you have the place to yourself and the light gives the place a truly magical atmosphere. You even might see springboks crossing the vlei before the tourist masses arrive. Paradoxicaly it was raining when I visited the Namib in July 2008. The Tsauchab River flooded and I got stuck in the Naukluft Mountains for 2 nights. The following days the desert awakened and I could hear the grass grow.