In this context, we found ourselves drawn not only to the grandeur and fabulous colours, but also the offer of tiny details-purple flowers blooming in the sand against all odds, lonely colourful lizards skirting along rock faces and defiant trails left in the sand by dung beetles. Its enormity humbles, placing each of its visitors in his smallness against the power of Mother Nature. Road trip through Namibia’s vast southern deserts. What we didn’t realize-in fact, could never realize until we’d experienced it firsthand-was the sheer vastness of the Namibian desert. As it turned out, nature in this corner of the globe offered something truly unique-like nothing else we had seen in other parts Africa, let alone the rest of the world. Why the south? We were drawn by the vastness conjured up by the world’s second largest canyon (eclipsed only by the Grand Canyon) and Namibia’s iconic sand dunes and deserts. When we had the opportunity to visit and with limited time, we chose to focus squarely on the south.
You can see it with your own eyes - just take a virtual trip with the help of our panoramas.Namibia offers a lot to the traveller: wildlife and cultural diversity in the country’s north and the iconic dunes to the south. Natural and cultural heritage of Namibia cannot help being admired and pleasant to look at. Lots of shipwreck remnants can still be found here. And there was a reason for this name to be given to this place: fog, huge boulders, storms and the cold Benguela Current that forms near the Cape of Good Hope create hazards for shipping. It is one of the most ancient layers of the surface that can be found on the Earth: it consists of a massif of solid rock estimated to be one and a half milliard years old. The Namib Desert has one more interesting locality bearing a rather ‘sinister' name - the Skeleton Coast.
And now Deadvlei is the valley of dead tree skeletons against the background of blue sky and bright colourful dunes. But when the climate changed, the pool filled up with sand, then the sun not just dried the trees, but practically burnt them. Many centuries ago it was the area of abundant rains which allowed to create an oasis with trees and a water pool. Sossusvlei is the place where the famous Deadvlei is situated. At the period of a short wet season, which usually occurs in February, the plateau fills with waters of the Tsauchab River. Strong winds blowing from different directions create fantastic forms of the dunes. Their colour can vary from apricot and orange to deep red and maroon, creating a dazzling contrast to the salt hollows lying at their bottom. This place is a home to the largest sand dunes in the world - up to 325 meters high. The most famous place of the Namib-Naukluft is a clay pan of Sossusvlei. The total area of the park is around 50,000 sq kilometers, making it the fourth largest park in the world. The Namib-Naukluft National Park encompasses the bigger part of the Namib Desert and the Naukluft mountain range. The Central Plateau is situated between the Namib Desert, which looks towards the Atlantic Ocean and the Kalahari Desert in the South it is bounded by the Orange River and the North of the country is covered with jungles. The main part of the country is occupied by highlands, its highest point (the Brandberg mountain or sometimes referred as Königstein) is 2606 meters high.
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Its neighbour, the Republic of South Africa, has already been shown in our panoramas, but Namibia is not the less interesting and full of landmarks as well. Namibia is a country situated in the southern Africa.
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