Namibia's Namib Desert
Namib Naukluft Park
Just south of Walvis Bay, the Namib Naukluft Park is the country’s largest nature reserve, as well as the fourth largest national park in the world. Renowned for its beauty, isolation, tranquility, romantic desert landscapes and rare desert adapted plants and creatures, the Namib Naukluft Park is an experience unlike any other. Spanning an area of 12.1 million acres, and stretching from Swakopmund in the north to Luderitz in the south, the Namib Naukluft accounts for a tenth of Namibia’s total size, and is best divided into five distinct areas.
The Northern Section, synonymous with rocky stone surfaces and granite islands; the Middle Section, home to the Sesriem Canyon and Sossusvlei; Naukluft, where numerous game and birds reside within the narrow gorge that gives this area its name; the Western Section, with its lichen covered plants, prehistoric plants and bird sanctuaries; and the Southern Section, where history resonates a pungent flavor.
