Namibia (5/2007) - Swakopmund, flying over the Namib desert

The Namib Desert is a desert in Namibia and southwest Angola that forms part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park. The name "Namib" is of Nama origin and means vast.
The desert occupies an area of around 80 900 km² (31 200 square miles), stretching about 1000 miles (1,600 km) along the Atlantic Ocean coast of Namibia. Its east-west width varies from 30 to 100 miles (50-160 km). The Namib Desert also reaches into southwest Angola. It is one of the 500 distinct physiographic provinces of the South African Platform physiographic division.
Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for at least 55 million years, it is considered to be the oldest desert in the world. The Namib's aridity is caused by the descent of dry air of the Hadley Cell, cooled by the cold Benguela current along the coast. It has less than 10 mm (0.4 inches) of rain annually and is almost completely barren.

Pleasure Flights + Safaris, flight over Sossusvlei
This most popular flight takes you over the Namib desert, the dry Kuiseb river bed on to the magnificent dune formations, as far as Sossusvlei. Return along the "Forbidden Coast" where you will discover shipwrecks, seal colonies and flocks of flamingos.
Pleasure Flights + Safaris: Swakopmund - Namibia, P.O. Box 537,Tel: +264 64 404500, e-mail: redbaron@iafrica.com.na

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