Namib Desert Tapestries

Namib Desert in Namibia

Namib Desert in Africa

Desert Dunes

Namib National Park

Namib Desert in South Africa

Namib desert Southern Africa travel poster art print.

Namib-Naukluft National Park

Namib Desert in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia

The red iron in the dunes is emphasised at sunrise by the low angle of the rising sun. Stretching 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) in length, but averaging a width of only 110 kilometres (70 miles), the Namib Desert is home to the highest sand dunes in the world up to 340 metres high. Namib Naukluft National Park, at Sussovlei, Namibia, Africa. Canon EOS, zoom lens. (Featured in Sunrise Sunset Scapes, and other groups.)

The red iron in the dunes is emphasised at sunrise by the low angle of the rising sun. (Featured in African Beauty & Others.) The dunes are either side of the dry Tsauchab River. An occasional tree dots the river flats. Stretching 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) in length, but averaging a width of only 110 kilometres (70 miles), the Namib Desert is home to the highest sand dunes in the world up to 340 metres high. Namib Naukluft National Park, at Sussovlei, Namibia, Africa. (Canon EOS, zoom lens) .

Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts in Africa. Namibia's elephant population is growing at about 3.3 percent per year.

Namib National Park

Namib National Park

colourful Namib Desert in Namibia, Africa

Namib desert. Namibia, South Africa, Angola. Retro travel poster

Namibia. Namib-Naukluft National Park. Deadvlei. Dead Trees. Fog.

Namibia. Namib-Naukluft National Park. Dunes.

Namibia. Namib-Naukluft National Park. Deadvlei. Dead Trees. Dunes.

A lonely tree in the desert. Using some metallic paint and gold and silver for tones this turned out beautifully .

The Scorched Tree Skeletons of the Namib Desert - Deadvlei.

Namibia. Namib-Naukluft National Park. Sossusvlei. Jackal.

A fossilised tree in the sand dunes of Sossusvlei in the Namib desert, Namibia

Namibia. Namib-Naukluft National Park. Deadvlei. Framed Dead Trees.

dramatic sunset over the Namib Desert in Namibia, Africa

a glorious sunset over the Namib Desert in Namibia, Africa

The sun rising in the sand dunes of Sossusvlei, Namib desert, Namibia, giving a soft red and gold light and a calm and peaceful ambience

Spectacular colors of the Namibia Sossusvlei Dunes at sunrise in Africa.

It's a hike to get there, but SO worth it. It's like standing on another planet as the sun rises and the shadows and colours change constantly. Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means "dead marsh" (from English dead, and Afrikaans vlei, a lake or marsh in a valley between the dunes). The pan also is referred to as "Dooie Vlei" which is the (presumably original) fully Afrikaans name.

“The Organ Pipes” Canyon. Hexagonal joints in a post Karoo dolerite, which solidified into a group of homogeneously oriented columns with mostly hexagonal cross sections, form a small canyon in the Namib Desert, Sossusvlei, Namibia, Africa.

Ancient bushman rock painting of an antelope, probably a dama gazelle, on the ceiling of a cave in the Namib Desert, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, south-west Africa

Detail. "The Organ Pipes", hexagonal joints in a post Karoo dolerite, which solidified into a group of homogeneously oriented columns with mostly hexagonal cross sections, form a small canyon in the Namib Desert, Sossusvlei, Namibia, Africa. Canon EOS (film), zoom lens. (Featured in All That is Nature, & Other Groups.) (1673 views at 30 November 2015)

The long lived (male) Welwitschia (Welwitschia Mirabilis) plant, a "living fossil" can be seen growing beside fossils from the Petrified Forest situated Aba Huab River valley west of Khorixas, Damaraland, Namibia, Africa. The Welwitschia has a low trunk and two leaves that divide and sprawl on the Namib gravel for the entire life of the plant, which can span many hundreds of years. If this weren't enough, Welwitschia is a gymnosperm related to Mormon Tea (Ephedra) and produces seeds in cones, not from flowers. An individual Welwitschia plant produces either male or female cones, but never both. The age of the plants is difficult to assess, but they are very long-lived, living 1000 years or more. Some individuals may be more than 2000 yea...

The long lived (male) Welwitschia (Welwitschia Mirabilis) plant, a “living fossil” can be seen growing beside fossils from the Petrified Forest situated Aba Huab River valley west of Khorixas, Damaraland, Namibia, Africa. The Welwitschia has a low trunk and two leaves that divide and sprawl on the Namib gravel for the entire life of the plant, which can span many hundreds of years. If this weren’t enough, Welwitschia is a gymnosperm related to Mormon Tea (Ephedra) and produces seeds in cones, not from flowers. An individual Welwitschia plant produces either male or female cones, but never both. The age of the plants is difficult to assess, but they are very long-lived, living 1000 years or more. Some individuals may be more than 2000 yea...

Love for Namibia

Sunrise in the sand dunes at Sossusvlei in the Namibian desert, Namibia

Sunrise in the sand dunes of Sossusvlei, Namib desert, Namibia