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The skeletons of dead trees. Sossusflei is a clay plateau in the Namib Naukluft Park. Namibia. Huge scenic red and orange sand dunes. Hot sunny morning in the Namib desert. Africa.

Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Dead Vlei has been claimed to be surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, the highest reaching 300–400 meters (350m on average, named "Big Daddy" or "Crazy Dune". It is also well-known for its dead vachellia erioloba, the camel thorn, giraffe thorn, or Kameeldoring in Afrikaans, still more commonly known as Acacia erioloba.

Dune walking in the Namib Desert in the Namib-Naukluft National Park at Sossusvlei in Namibia. The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa and stretches for more than 2000 km (1200 miles) along the Atlantic coast of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.

Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means "dead marsh" The pan also is referred to as "Dooie Vlei" which is the (presumably original) fully Afrikaans name. In Google there are many references to the site, its name often being translated erroneously in terms such as "dead valley"; a vlei is not a valley (which in Afrikaans is "vallei"). Nikon D4Nikkor AF-S 14-24mmGitzo tripod

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