Danse Macabre (DSC7341)
Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia
Wer war der Tor, wer der Weise[r],
Wer der Bettler oder Kaiser?
Ob arm, ob reich, im Tode gleich.
Who was the fool, who the wise [man],
Who the beggar or the Emperor?
Whether rich or poor, [all are] equal in death.
- The Danse Macabre
Two desiccated camel thorn trees stand stranded in the desolate landscape of the Deadvlei in the Namib-Nakluft National Park in Namibia. The Deadvlei is a clay pan into which excess rainfall used to flood seasonally from the Tsauchab river. When the rains failed and the river dried up, the trees were left to die in the desert heat having become cut off by the shifting dunes. These trees appear interlocked like two praying mantises in a dance of death - and have been so for 700 years.
Danse Macabre (DSC7341)
Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia
Wer war der Tor, wer der Weise[r],
Wer der Bettler oder Kaiser?
Ob arm, ob reich, im Tode gleich.
Who was the fool, who the wise [man],
Who the beggar or the Emperor?
Whether rich or poor, [all are] equal in death.
- The Danse Macabre
Two desiccated camel thorn trees stand stranded in the desolate landscape of the Deadvlei in the Namib-Nakluft National Park in Namibia. The Deadvlei is a clay pan into which excess rainfall used to flood seasonally from the Tsauchab river. When the rains failed and the river dried up, the trees were left to die in the desert heat having become cut off by the shifting dunes. These trees appear interlocked like two praying mantises in a dance of death - and have been so for 700 years.