Hiking here allows you to witness the Great Migration, where millions of wildebeest and zebras traverse the landscape. The open savanna provides excellent visibility for spotting lions, elephants, ...

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.

Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand ...

Desert travel doesn’t have to mean hardship. These places offer space, comfort, and something even rarer — the chance to ...

Namibia is one of the most sparsely populated countries on Earth, with a staggering 97% of its land remaining largely empty. But why is this southern African nation so empty? This video explores ...

The landscape still has some greenery and pools of water dot it here and there." A striking white clay pan near Sossusvlei is Deadvlei, known for its blackened, dead camel thorn trees, which have ...

The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid landscape of towering dunes, occupying about 34,000km² between the towns of Lüderitz in the south ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

The Arabian Desert is today a vast and barren landscapes. But humid periods over the last 8 million years may have brought ephemeral rivers and grasslands to the region, a new study suggests.

The archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention. The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia.