It’s harsh but beautiful. Wildly, poetically, savagely beautiful. Stretching for 1,200 miles along the Atlantic coast, Namibia’s dunes – formed by materials swept by river, ocean currents and wind from the vast African hinterland - stretch into an interior worthy of David Lean’s sweeping camera. From on high, the dunes lashed by Atlantic surf melt into the endless surging ripples of Namibia’s Namib Sand Sea. Uninhabited by humans, it doesn’t seem possible that anything could survive in this wilderness. But the coastal fog – rotten for photographs, great for nature – shrouding the desert for half the year sustains a large number of resilient plants and tough-as-nuts animals who can adapt to the ever-changeable microhabitat. For the visitor, however, the attraction is about the macro as well as the micro. The Namib Sand Sea’s shifting dunes spawn blizzards of sand, which, mixed with the fog, create a stage for some of the world’s foremost storm watching. More sedately, the ‘sea’, comprising a large part of the Namib-Naukluft Park, includes favourite tourist destinations such as Sossusvlei, where a white, dried-up salt and clay lake is juxtaposed with vertiginous red dunes and the stark skeletons of dead trees.
Namib Sand Sea - Namibia
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It’s harsh but beautiful. Wildly, poetically, savagely beautiful. Stretching for 1,200 miles along the Atlantic coast, Namibia’s dunes – formed by materials swept by river, ocean currents and wind from the vast African hinterland - stretch into an interior worthy of David Lean’s sweeping camera. From on high, the dunes lashed by Atlantic surf melt into the endless surging ripples of Namibia’s Namib Sand Sea. Uninhabited by humans, it doesn’t seem possible that anything could survive in this wilderness. But the coastal fog – rotten for photographs, great for nature – shrouding the desert for half the year sustains a large number of resilient plants and tough-as-nuts animals who can adapt to the ever-changeable microhabitat. For the visitor, however, the attraction is about the macro as well as the micro. The Namib Sand Sea’s shifting dunes spawn blizzards of sand, which, mixed with the fog, create a stage for some of the world’s foremost storm watching. More sedately, the ‘sea’, comprising a large part of the Namib-Naukluft Park, includes favourite tourist destinations such as Sossusvlei, where a white, dried-up salt and clay lake is juxtaposed with vertiginous red dunes and the stark skeletons of dead trees.
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