14-Day Namibia Camping Adventure — Sossusvlei, Fish River Canyon & Etosha Safari

You step out of the Land Cruiser before dawn and the desert greets you like an old rival: cool at first, then a slow burn as the sun edges over the dune ridges. In the distance, the orange slopes of Sossusvlei glow, cast in a light that seems to polish the sand until it dares you to climb. Over the next two weeks the landscape keeps shifting — granite towers that throw long, jagged shadows at Spitzkoppe, the wind-sculpted expanse of the Skeleton Coast, the dry bones of Dead Vlei like blackened sculptures against a white pan — each place with its own weather, tone and rhythm.