The Namib-Naukluft Park is Namibia's largest nature reserve, about 50,000 sqkms in size. It is home to some of the rarest plant and animal species in the world, including the Welwitschia Mirabilis, large lichen fields and Hartmann's Mountain Zebra.

There are four sections in the park: Sossusvlei, Naukluft, Namib section and Sandwich Harbour. These areas significantly differ in landscape. The differences extend to weather ranging from the wet estuarine lagoon at Sandwich Harbour to the parched Namib desert.

The northern part of the park has stony plains leading to lunar landscapes, and the Naukluft Mountain massif has monumental purple-hued mountains, rock pools and wildlife.

A few gravel roads traverse the northern section and another leads into the middle dune area and Sesriem canyon, apart from that the only way to appreciate the magnificence of all this is by light aircraft on a scenic flight from Walvis Bay/Swakopmund.