This Isn't A Surrealist Painting. It's A Real Place.

The place is called Deadvlei, or the "Dead Marsh", in Namibia. The orange backdrop is of the highest sand dunes in the world and they sit behind the dead trees, giving the photo that surrealist feel. It was once an oasis in the desert, teeming with life, until it dried out when a drought hit. Today, the sun-scorched, thousand-year-old skeletons of the trees are all that remains -- a glimpse into a paradise that existed for only a moment in time.

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