When you first fly out of Swakopmund you are quickly met by the vast Namib Desert, ranging from barren and dried up river beds to the towering sand dunes. 
You don’t realise how tall and wide the sand dunes are until you fly over them.

It doesn’t rain very often in the Namib Desert but travel during the wet season and you may see it rain.

The older sand dunes are more red in colour with the younger sand dunes more yellow.

Dark patches of sand among the dunes are the heavy mineral sands.