Namib Naukluft

Adventure Holidays to Namib Naufluft

Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological reserve in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, thought to be Earth’s oldest desert. The park, the largest game reserve in Africa, contains a surprising collection of creatures that manage to survive in the hyper-arid region, including snakes, geckos, hyenas, and jackals. Some of the highly specialised desert dwellers include the fog-basking beetle and the Welwitschia plant, considered a living fossil. Life in the Namib depends on fog from the Atlantic rather than rain. Much of the park is inaccessible, the most prominent attraction being the Sossusvlei area, where high orange sand junes surround vivid while salt pans.