The day that we hiked up the Big Daddy dune and down through Deadvlei still remains among my favorite days from our holiday to southern Africa. Deadvlei is a natural clay pan that sits at the bottom of some very tall dunes. Because it’s in the middle of a few hundred mile wide and long desert, there is literally no humidity at all. At one point, there was enough water to grow trees, but the trees that you can see in the have actually been petrified for some 900 years. As noted in previous posts, we hiked up the dune, which took about 2 hours, then we walked straight down the sand into Deadvlei, which only took about 10 minutes. It was 10 AM by the time we got down the dune, so it was already getting pretty warm on the ground. We walked through for about an hour, and went back to our camp for a late, second breakfast and a nap. Highly recommended.

Sony A7R II | FE 70-200mm F4 | 90mm | f/4.0 | 1/2000 | ISO100