Some of the highest sand dunes in the world, red-orange in the Namib Desert, a UNESCO site. Climb Big Daddy or Dune 45 at sunrise, then walk into Deadvlei, a white clay pan with dead camel thorn trees.
Stay inside the park gate at Sesriem to be first in at dawn. A 4x4 shuttle covers the last 5 km of sand.
A diamond-mining town abandoned in the 1950s, now being swallowed by sand, with dunes filling grand houses.
A seaside town with German colonial buildings between the desert and the ocean.
A foggy desert coast with shipwrecks and whale bones on the beaches.
The largest canyon in Africa, 160 km long and up to 550 m deep.
A rugged region with desert-adapted elephants and rhinos, and Twyfelfontein, with over 2,000 rock engravings, a UNESCO site.
A vast salt pan surrounded by grassland and waterholes, where elephants, lions, rhinos, giraffes and zebras gather in the dry season.
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