Naukluft National Park, Namibia

I left Swakopmond early on a Sunday morning to travel through the Naukluft National Park en route to Windhoek. It is a very arid area with virtually no plant life. The Mountains of the Moon.

A Wildischia plant, slow growing, long living and unique to Namibia, this particular one is estimated to be 1,500 years old.

Two other desert plants, one with leaves like a dollar coin and behind it another shrub which drops its leaves after the last rainfall and looks did being just twigs until it rains again and it springs into life.

A long distance view of the Mountains of the Moon.

The remains of a South African army camp that was established during the First World War to fight German colonial forces in the area.

 A natural rock arch, one of several in the area.

 As the road heads into the mountains, there is more rainfall and the desert slowly changes . It had recently rained in this area and the desert has bloomed with small yellow flowers and grass in what is usually sandy and stoney desert floor.

 The road leaves the mountains and drops to a lower altitude and passes through the outskirts of Windhoek.