<p>Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park.</p>
<p><i>See more <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/namibia-park/lanting-photography">pictures</a> from the June 2011 feature <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/06/namibia-park/fuller-text">story</a> "Africa's Super Park."</i></p>
Photo of the Day: Best of 2011
View the most popular Photo of the Day images from 2011, featuring Namibian thorn trees, a whitetip shark and diver in the Bahamas, a birch-covered boulder in the Adirondacks, Dubai skyscrapers emerging above the clouds, and more.