Sossusvlei
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Sossusvlei is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. The name "Sossusvlei" is often used in
The Sossusvlei pan
Aerial view of Sossusvlei (2017)
Traces in the sand, left by insects and other small animals
Dune 45
Tsauchab
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The Tsauchab is an ephemeral river in the Hardap Region of central Namibia. Its source is in the southern Naukluft Mountains, from where it flows westwards through the Namib-Naukluft National Park int
Sossusvlei
…dead end". Sossusvlei owes this name to the fact that it is an endorheic drainage basin (i.e., a drainage basin without outflows) for the ephemeral Tsauchab River. The Sossusvlei area forms part of a wider region of the southern Namib Desert with homogeneous features (about 32.000 km²) extending between the…
The lower 45 kilometers of the Tsauchab River, taken from ISS
Sesriem Canyon, with the Tsauchab dry
A lake formed on a portion of the Tsauchab in the Sossusvlei salt pan after rains