1. The Namib
"Flying over the Skeleton Coast, then into Sossusvlei, is one of the most beautiful plane trips I've done. The dunes turn from yellow to orange to red. And in parts of the Namib, the rocks are weird colours, ranging from purple to luminous yellow," says Lisa Grainger.
The Namib desert stretches across some 81,000 km² (31,274 square miles) of south-western Africa, ceding from sand seas near the coast to rocky planes further inland. It is mostly uninhabited by humans, save a few small settlements, but abounds with black rhino, cheetah, and zebra.
AP