Deadvlei
Start The early morning light had just begun to warm the edges of the Namib Desert as I stepped out of the jeep and into a landscape that felt otherworldly. I had come to visit Deadvlei, a remote and eerie clay pan in Namibia, one of the oldest deserts on Earth. The stillness around me was immediate, the air heavy with silence and the weight of history. Before me, a vast, flat expanse stretched out, bordered by towering, fiery-red sand dunes, some of the tallest in the world. Yet, it was the sight within the pan that captivated me—the ancient, blackened skeletons of dead trees, standing like forgotten sentinels in the midst of a land that hadn’t seen rain in centuries.
