The Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust Centre teaches visitors about the Earth and provides units for overnight guests to view the night sky while lying in bed. Situated along the shores ...

Africa has some of the most stunning stargazing spots in the world. With wide-open skies and low light pollution, it makes an ...

Once a thriving diamond mining settlement deep within the Namib Desert, Kolmanskop in southern Namibia is now a hauntingly beautiful ghost town, slowly being reclaimed by the sand. With wallpaper ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

The Namib Desert is one of the oldest deserts in the world, flourishing with life where none seems possible. This programme reveals its hidden water sources. Show more The Namib Desert is one of ...

but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows and emerge at night to feed. Their bloodshot-looking eyes are massively ...

But what many of these regions lack in traditional water sources, they make up for in fog, like the Namib Desert. It's one of the oldest and driest places in the world. Depending on how far you ...

the dunes of the Namib Desert stretch far inland. A diversity of animals and plants - many of them endemic to the region - live in the desert. During the day temperatures can soar as high as 60°C ...

This immense stretch of Namib Desert is, first and foremost ... is the merging of the dark skies with the utter quiet of night. Gaze at the stars in a state-of-the-art observatory, and then ...