Namib Desert is one of the oldest on earth, its age is estimated by scientists in 60-80 million years. The desert is striking in its variety of landscapes - brown weathered rocks, numerous canyons of dry rivers, huge wandering dunes and vast rubbish heaths interspersed with tiny oases.

In the heart of Namib Desert there is Namib-Naukluft National Park, one of the largest reserves in the world..Here you can see elephants, lions, rhinoceroses and giraffes, as well as the national symbol of Namibia - a unique plant "rose of the desert", individual specimens of which are up to 2000 years old .Within the park there are a lot of unique landscape monuments - the plains of Velvichia-Plains, the mountains of Naukluft, the "bird paradise" of the sandwich-Harbor lagoon, the Sesrim canyon up to 30 m deep and the colossal dune area around the Sossufly oasis .In the season of Sossuflej rains to the delta of the river Chauchab flies a lot of birds, including - the famous flamingo .

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