[PEMANDANGAN] Dead But Beautiful: Surrealistic Deadvlei In Namibia

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Literally “dead marsh,” Deadvlei is a flat expanse in the middle of the Namibian desert famous for its surrealistic terrain: charcoal black trees grow out of white textured ground with the backdrop of rolling red dunes and the clear blue sky. It is a landscape that used to be brimming with life, but has now receded into a dramatic “death.”

Located in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Deadvlei used to be a lake where the Tsauchab river drained, giving life to a humble desert oasis. However through time, the slowly moving dunes blocked the pan from the river, turning it into a marshland and eventually into a “dead vlei” (“vlei” is an Afrikaans name for a lake or marsh surrounded by dunes).

While Deadvlei was still alive, numerous camel thorn trees sprouted across the area. But when the water source was cut off, the area became too dry even for the trees to decompose. The sun baked the thousand-year old trees, turning them black and creating an eerie petrified forest in the middle of the red desert. Yet in its strange, alien-like appearance, some call it the most beautiful ‘dead’ place on Earth.

Deadvlei is a 44-kilometer drive from the park gate, passing through the great Sossuvlei salt pan.

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macam lukisan.. chantek sangat ...

bianglala

ni lawa... tak banyak objek dalam gambar, tapi marvellous pemandangan sini

mogwaii

tgk gambaq rasa panaihh

SuteraPurple

cantikl permandangannya.. mcm dlm lukisan.. ada tone colour

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salah satu gambar yang menang National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2015.

Merit prize: Deadveli, which means 'dead marsh', is in Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. The camelthorn trees that once grew there are thought to be about 900 years old but have not decomposed because the environment is so dry. 'The night before returning to Windhoek, we spent several hours at Deadveli. The moon was bright enough to illuminate the sand dunes in the distance, but the skies were still dark enough to clearly see the Milky Way and magellanic clouds,' said photographer Beth McCarley. (Beth McCarley/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)