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 ...
It was our second day at Zannier Hotels Sonop, located deep in the Namib desert of Namibia, in southern Africa ... with plinth hats, vintage maps, binoculars, coffee table travel books, and ...
The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid landscape of towering ... for a comprehensive study of areas that have not been on the map of the major ...