Kalahari Desert
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900,000 km2, including much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
Kalahari in Namibia
Bird's eye view of the Kalahari in Namibia: the dark dots are camel thorns
Kalahari claypan near Onderombapa
Heavy thunderstorm near Stampriet
Namib
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The Namib is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and northwest S
An image of the Namib Desert by the MODIS instrument
Namib desert and ocean
Sossusvlei, one of Namib's major tourist attractions, is a salt and clay pan surrounded by large dunes. The flats pictured here were caused by the Tsauchab stream after summer rains
Thick morning fog rolls in from the ocean, near Sossusvlei; moisture from the fog allows the native flora to survive the aridity