Sossusvlei, Namibia Travel Blogs

How not to organise an overland trip
May 5, 2006 (2 photos)

... Tanzania! In the end it was 1:30 before we left, due to general ineptitude it looked like we wouldn't make it to Namibia's top tourist attraction that evening! We went the first 30km down the coast to Walvis Bay, this place was occupied by the South ...

The Journey to Dead Vlei
Sep 10, 2008 (92 photos)

Getting around is pretty difficult in Namibia.  Distances are vast and desolate and public transportation is almost non-existent.  I suppose it figures that in an enormous desert with a population of only 2 million people, public transport is a ...

Sand Sea & If God Exists, He's Taunting Me
Oct 3, 2007 (141 photos)

After mouldering in Windhoek for almost a week, it was clear I would not be hitching a ride to Sossusvlei. Fortunately, neither would Meg and Liz, two American Peace Corps volunteers, so we decided to rent a car and take matters into our own hands. ...

The highest dunes in the world
Mar 28, 2007 (27 photos)

This was another very strange place. Sossulsvlei is home to the highest sand dunes in the world, but it looks like something out of an apocalypse. There are dead trees everywhere, and its very eerie. It was interesting to look at though. We climbed one of ...

Jacko Comes to Town: Part Deux
Jun 22, 2007

The next day I recovered my iPod about 20 feet from our campsite.  My earphones were chewed up but the iPod was still working.  Unfortunately as I write this letter the iPod is no longer working.  Mr. Jack bit into it really hard and now it ...

De sable et de feu / From sand and fire
Oct 10, 2004 (5 photos)

Les dunes de Namibie sont célèbres. Elles le méritent. En parler est une chose, les voir en est une autre. Les grimper une expérience qu'on oublie pas. Ces dunes sont vivantes. Leur couleur change au cours de la journée. D'un jaune pâle à un rouge ocre écarlate. ...

Fish River Canyon to Sossusvlei
Jul 16, 2008 (2 photos)

Morning started with the local baboons picking there way through the rubbish bins. We drove and drove and drove for 10 hours.  Namibia is sparce as we only passed through one tiny town in all the driving, and the locals come out to see you as ...

Hiking in the Dunes
May 12, 2006

Dunes!

Namibia is Africa Hot!!!
Oct 14, 2008 (2 photos)

... by car is a paved highway that is on top of a dried river bed that' splits the dunes in two.  The word Sossusvlei means "sponge" in local language and is called that because when the river bed is flooded the water soaks into the ground under the ...

Namib Naukluft National Park
Jan 25, 2006 (5 photos)

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Sossusvlei and the amazing nature of Namibia
Oct 7, 2006 (3 photos)

... . Hours and hours without houses and cars, just beauty and sandy roads. And the Opel Corsa survived! Getting closer to Sossusvlei we saw ostriches and various types of antilopes. And the sand got redder and redder. Arrived in the afternoon to Sesriem ...

Day 171 - Namibia, Sossusvlei - Cobra & Ostriches
Apr 28, 2009

... bend my knees.  Little more info than you probably wanted but hey that's truck life. Pulled into Sesriem Camp Site in Sossusvlei National Park around 4pm where we headed straight to the bar for beers and icecream.  Great combo.  Suzy on her third cornetto ...

Sossusvlei
Mar 28, 2007 (5 photos)

We left Swakopmund fairly early after our few days, and had a half day drive down to an area called Sossusvlei, which is in the Namibian desert, a little bit in from the coast.  It's basically an area of sand dunes in the desert surrounding a river ...

Day 172 - Namibia, Sacred Rocks - Dune 45
Apr 29, 2009

... fault the view though!  As we were given two hours to wonder we strode off under the midday sun towards the pan of Sossusvlei, a place surrounded by bright red dunes... 5km away.  With the heat rising and not entirely sure where we were going or what it ...

Watching the sun rise on Dune 45
Aug 13, 2006 (10 photos)

... Namibia's sand dunes. Again, I will rely on Wikipedia to capture the essence of Dune 45: "Dune 45 is a star dune in Sossusvlei, Namibia. Its name comes from the fact that it is 45km from Sessriem Canyon. Standing over 170m, it is composed of 5 million ...

Sossusvlei
May 3, 2007 (11 photos)

We rented another car to go across the Namib desert to view the famous Sousousvlei sand dunes and take a hike in the Naukluft mountains.  The distances are vast here, it took us 5hrs each way to drive and see the dunes.  Granted, that's over ...

The awesome Namib
Apr 12, 2008 (13 photos)

... not exaggerating). I managed to read a bit of my book before turning off my headtorch. Start: Grunau, NAM. 8:27 End: Sossusvlei, NAM. 17:00 Distance Travelled: 604 km Road Conditions: hard gravel, some corrugation Temperature: hot, in a dry kind of ...

Namibie
Nov 5, 2004 (6 photos)

... . Mais tellement de personnes l'ont recommandée que c'est devenu une part importante du voyage. Et avec raison. Des dunes de Sossusvlei au parc d'Etosha en passant par Swakopmund et la cote du squelette, c'est une succession de couleurs, d'odeurs, de bruits ...

Wings Over Namibia: The Dunes
Sep 29, 2006 (31 photos)

... to be a year) Amy found a book called "100 Things to Do Before You Die" and on the cover was the Dunes at Sossusvlei. From that point on, Amy was determined to go to Namibia. To accomplish this we decided to do a Wings over Namibia tour that would ...

Sossusvlei - Beetles, Spiders and Sand Dunes
Mar 20, 2009 (15 photos)

... 30am).  There are a lot of positives too....when someone shouts "Ostrich at 9 o'clock on the left" it's all a bit surreal!:-) Sossusvlei was the base camp for us to do the sunrise Dune 45 climb and also meet a Bushman to teach us about the desert.& ...

Martian Land
May 29, 2007 (22 photos)

Up until now my time in Namibia has been amazing but one of the main reasons that I came to Namibia was to view the amazing Dune scape at Sossusvlei.  This part of the Namib desert contains miles and miles of huge spectacular looking red dunes, ...

Jacko Comes to Town
Jun 21, 2007

From Jo'burg I arrived in Windhoek, Namibia.  I took a three day safari to Sossusvlei to  see the sand dunes.  Here is what happened.   As we left the end of the city center where tar meets gravel road, a sign reads "The end of ...

Red Dunes
Jun 22, 2006

... in front of you. Namibia is a pretty place. According to Lonely Planet and numerous other travelers nowhere is it prettier than Sossusvlei. Or, the place with the Red Dunes. We drove into camp right as the sun was setting and proceeded to get set ...

De sable et de feu
Oct 10, 2004 (5 photos)

Les dunes de Namibie sont célèbres. Elles le méritent. En parler est une chose, les voir en est une autre. Les grimper une expérience qu'on oublie pas. Ces dunes sont vivantes. Leur couleur change au cours de la journée. D'un jaune pâle à un rouge ocre écarlate. ...

Cruising through Namibia
Dec 30, 2006 (19 photos)

... The car company kindly lent us some pillows, so there was a bit of luxury for the week. The nicest sleep we have had since getting the stupid tent was when we hopped on a 20 hour bus from Windhoek (Namibia) to Cape Town (South Africa).    

Dune 45
May 15, 2006

... for anymore than 30 minutes in the truck taking through the Namibian countryside, you would probably miss a lot. The land around Namibia just changes constantly. Driving from the Etosha National park which is famous for its salt lake, you can see that ...

stuck in the sand
Jun 29, 2007 (6 photos)

Booked a tour to the dunes because it seems otherwise impossible to get there. Namibia has such a small population compared to its size so there is no public transport for most of the country. I was picked up from my hostel and brought to wilddogs office ...

Sossusvlei sand dunes
Mar 20, 2006 (10 photos)

We climbed dune 45 at sunrise and then went on a fascinating nature walk with Buseman.

Shooting stars never stop
Nov 1, 2007 (6 photos)

After a very restless night, I got up at 6.30am to finish packing and get ready to leave. I wanted a few final photos and went looking for the horses hoping that Dominatron might have given birth overnight. She hadn't but Jenny was down on her side again ...

John Wayne walks again
Nov 2, 2007 (12 photos)

... which we found by looking for tracks and watching where they went. Back at the car, Cordulla decided we would go to Sossusvlei itself and have a 'Sundowner'.  I thought this would just be drinks but it turned out to be tablecloth, napkins and a ...