The inaugural Namib Desert Jazz Festival, a collaboration with the MSC Musica Cruise, will take place at Dune 7, the world’s tallest dune and a UNESCO World Heritage site. This unique cultural ...

Astonishingly beautiful, the dunes and plains of the Namib desert are bristling with unexpected ... basking on a sand bank as you cruise past in a powerboat, or lurking below the surface with ...

The Namib Desert, which runs along the Atlantic Ocean, is more than just a stretch of barren land. A few years ago, archaeologists in Namibia discovered a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck from ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

Show more In the baked Namib desert, a pair of ostriches raise their family in the searing heat to keep them safe from predators – but time is ticking as the chicks begin to hatch. Outside of ...

Located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, Sossusvlei is a must-visit destination for nature lovers, photographers, and adventure seekers. The charming holiday destination offers one of the ...

The archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention. The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid ...