Here are eight different ways to discover desert ... the name Namib means “a place where there’s nothing.” But nowadays there are plenty of ways to explore the park’s iconic dunes ...

Pia has traveled to the Namib Desert. Far away from civilization, she visits the Gobabeb Desert Research Station and learns amazing things about the miraculous creatures of the Namib Desert. First, ...

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 ...