deadvlei white clay pan located near the more famous salt sossusvlei inside namib naukluft park namibia

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Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei 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.

The pan also is referred to as `Dooie Vlei` which is the presumably original fully Afrikaans name. There are many references to the site on the Internet, 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.