Jack Dykinga / Dead Vlei, with dessicated 900 year old trees standing in the salt pan surrounded by towering red sand dunes. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. June 2013.

Jack Dykinga / Dead Vlei, with dessicated 900 year old trees standing in the salt pan surrounded by towering red sand dunes. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. June 2013.

Jack Dykinga / Dead Vlei, with dessicated 900 year old trees standing in the salt pan surrounded by towering red sand dunes. Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. June 2013.

Tony Phelps / Boomslang (Dispholidus typus) Immature male hunting in thorn bush above deHoop Vlei, Western Cape, South Africa, December

Stephen Belcher / Camelthorn Acacia (Acacia erioloba) dead tree with dunes in background, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia

Jose B. Ruiz / Camelthorn tree in Namib desert {Vachellia erioloba} Sossus Vlei, Namibia

Pete Oxford / Aerial view of sand dunes, near Sossusvlei, Namibia

Jose B. Ruiz / Giant sand dune Sossus Vlei, Namib-Naukluft NP, Namib desert, Namibia, Southern Africa

Tony Phelps / Lesser flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor) standing in water with reflection, DeHoop Vlei, DeHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, August.

Jen Guyton / Dead trees stand in a salt pan in the Namib-Naukluft National Park at the Dead Vlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia.

Jen Guyton / Dead Acacia trees in a salt pan in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, the Dead Vlei, Sossusvlei, Namibia.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Sand dunes, Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia