The rolling red rock formations at Spitzkoppe are ethereally beautiful, especially when surrounded by creeping morning mist, as in the picture below. This is the view I saw after sleeping under the stars for a night; the diurnal range is relatively large and the temperature after dark can sink below freezing (although on this occasion it only dropped to about ten degrees). On this trip, the the temperature during the hottest part of the day was as high as thirty two to thirty five degrees.
As Namibia is in the Southern hemisphere, January is the height of summer. It was at this time that I made my second visit to Deadvlei, in the desert. I found the salt pan rather warm during August, and therefore winter, 2008; however in January 2010, the heat was almost unbearable after a long walk around the dunes, reaching forty five degrees Celsius.
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