Namib.. the only coastal desert in the world

Arabiaweather.com - Ismail Ghasemi - The word Namib means "wide place" and it is the only desert in the world that lies on the coast, and it is also the oldest desert found on the planet as well.

The massive Namib Desert covers an area of 81,000 square kilometres, and it stretches for more than 2,000 kilometers along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia and South Africa.

In 2013, UNESCO declared the Namib Desert, with its sands overlooking the sea, to be the only coastal desert in the world and the only one with fog over large sand dunes. It is also home to many rare species of flora and fauna that depend on the mist as their only source of water.

Visiting times to be avoided

You can visit the desert of Namibia and its natural park at any time of the year, but avoid the period between the months of December and February, when the temperature rises to more than 50 degrees Celsius. As for the period between February and April, you will see some greenery and wild flowers, and the rest of the year you will see the beautiful desert in all its colors.

It is a place that will astonish you

long wall

It is a prominent coastal area of the Namib Desert, in which sand dunes appear high above sea level as if they were a sand wall, standing at it in astonishment, and the wall extends along the restricted area "Spergbyet" in southwestern Namibia and may reach a height of up to 300 meters.

Naukluft National Park

It is the largest wildlife reserve in Africa and one of the largest reserves in the world. Most of the places in this park cannot be accessed, but there are many well-known tourist places, and perhaps the Sosusvli region is the most famous center of attraction.

Skelton Coast

Sometimes the whole coast of Namibia is referred to by this name, but it is only the northern part of the Namibian coast, and there lies the most attractive fishing area "De Waal".

Cape Cross fur seal settlement

One of the great places to visit is to see this type of animal that preferred to live in a very quiet coastal desert place.

sossusvli

An area of salt and mud surrounded by red sand dunes, the name literally means "the end of a dead end" whose inevitable consequence would be death in the open, but with this name there is no reference to the surrounding areas such as Don 45, Deadfly, and Hiddenfley.

Deadfly

It is a bowl of white clay inside the Namib-Naukluft Park, and its name means "deadly marshes" or deadly lakes, and in this place you can find the oldest dead trees in the world.

Sesriem Canyon

This valley extends about 1 kilometer in length and 30 meters in depth, and it is located about 4 kilometers from the settlement of Sesriem, and the valley is only 2 meters high in some areas, and it is the part that contains water that many animals use to survive.