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Dead camelthorn trees in Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namib Desert, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia, Africa Royalty Free Stock Photo

Namib desert Deadvlei `Dead Trees` in Sossusvlei located in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Dead Acacia Trees of Deadvlei in Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia Royalty Free Stock Photo

Deadvlei with dead trees in the Namib desert of Namibia Royalty Free Stock Photo

Dead trees in the Deadvlei in Naukluft Park in de Namib Desert in Namibia

Dead trees in the Deadvlei in Naukluft Park in de Namib Desert in Namibia Royalty Free Stock Photo

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.