Namib means “vast place” (as you can see in our wonderful featured image by untipografico). Stretching 1,200 miles down the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia and South Africa, the eponymous desert certainly lives up to its name!
This almost completely uninhabited part of the world is dominated by epic expanses of deep orange dunes with razor sharp edges.
But there’s much more to the Namib than ever-moving mounds of sand and gravel. A number of idiosyncratic and surreal spots really give this place its character – not least the bright white Deadvlei salt and clay pan and the eerie, and the long-expired acacia trees blackened by death dotted across it.
Written by insider city guide series Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to…
