Namib-Naukluft National Park

The park is the largest game reserve in Africa and contains a surprising collection of creatures who manage to survive in the hyper-arid region, including snakes, geckos, hyenas and jackals. Some of the highly specialised desert dwellers include the Welwitschia plant, considered a living fossil, and the fog-basking beetle; life in the Namib depends on fog from the Atlantic rather than rain. Much of the area is inaccessible, but Namib-Naukluft National Park tours will give you the chance to appreciate its most prominent attraction, the Sossusvlei area, where high orange sand dunes surround vivid while salt pans.