Max, Judy and I had a couple of days to take in the vast expanse of the Namib Desert. Did you know the Namib Desert is the oldest desert in the world ?
While there, we visited Sossusvlei, a salt and clay pan surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park. We climbed Dune 45, the highest dune at 250 metres. We also visited Deadvlei, the sight of a flood 300 years ago that suffocated a forest of trees.
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| Ghostly trees of Deadvlei. |
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| We hiked the 5km from Dune 45 to Deadvlei. |
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| We took an other worldly flight-seeing tour over the desert. |
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| Judy, on top of Dune 45. |
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| The trucks on the lower right corner give some perspective to the height of this dune. |
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| My foot, descending the giant dune. It took days to get the last grains of sand out of my shoes. |
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