Tracks in the sand of the Namib desert. The black rhinoceros ... of the group's base in Palmwag in north-western Namibia. It is from the local lodge that tours start for observing the creatures.

Once a thriving diamond mining settlement deep within the Namib Desert, Kolmanskop in southern Namibia is now a hauntingly beautiful ghost town, slowly being reclaimed by the sand. With wallpaper ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...