Man sits among skeletal remains of camel thorn acacia tree on the limestone and sand dunes of Dead Vlei in Namibia Africa


Man sits among skeletal remains of camel thorn acacia tree on the limestone of Dead Vlei a salt pan left when a river dried up in Sossusvlei sand dune area in south central Namibia. Namib Naukluft Park at Sossusvlei is the largest game park in Africa and fourth largest in the world and covers 40,000 sq km. Namib dunes are the oldest in the world approximately 30 million years old and spread over 32,500 square kilometres covering 300 km along the coast and up to 140 km inland. Red color of sand comes from the high amount of iron oxide particles in the sand.


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Location: Namibia
Photo credit: © Yvette Cardozo / Alamy / Afripics
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