Sossusvlei and the Namib Desert 🐫🏝️

A sea of sand, and soaring over rusty red dunes in a hot air balloon. 🎈 🏜️☀️🌵

The world’s oldest desert is spectacular. A landscape that could easily be from another planet. Some parts are so dry, they get less than 10mm of rain per YEAR! 

Here, we visited the iconic Dead Vlei. 🤩 This used to be a marsh with an acacia tree forest. Then the river got cut off, the marsh dried and the trees died. This happened 1,000+ years ago, but the tree skeletons still stand. So dry is this desert the trees couldn’t even decompose, burnt black they stand forever more, frozen in time and place. 

The Namib Desert is also where you will find some of the tallest dunes in the world. Like Big Daddy, topping out at 325m and dwarfing the other dunes in the desert.🌵 

A certain highlight, in more ways than one, was gliding silently over the desertscsape, weightless, in a hot air balloon. 🎈 There is something truly poetic about using the oldest form of manned flight to admire the world’s oldest desert from above. 

For more info about Sossusvlei, visit us here.