Dune 45 Near The Entrance Of Sossusvlei And Deadvlei In Naukluft Park In De Namib Desert In Namibia Stock Photography

Dune 45 near Sossusvlei and Deadvlei. Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means `dead marsh` from English dead, and Afrikaans vlei, a lake or marsh in a valley between the dunes. The pan also is referred to as `Dooie Vlei` which is the presumably original fully Afrikaans name. In Google there are many references to the site, its name often being translated erroneously in terms such as `dead valley`; a vlei is not a valley which in Afrikaans is `vallei`. Nor is the site a valley; the pan is a desiccated vlei.