Where was Mad Max: Fury Road filmed?

This relentless action film is as much a landscape as a chase, a feature-length sprint across a scorched, beautiful wasteland that became an instant visual classic. For adventurous travellers, the appeal is the chance to see that otherworldly desert with their own eyes, a place so stark and cinematic it barely looks real on screen.

After unexpected rains greened its original Australian setting, the production moved to Namibia, where the film found its true canvas. The towering dunes and endless gravel plains of the Namib Desert are the wasteland the film's ferocious chase tears across, their scale and emptiness giving the action its epic, end-of-the-world grandeur.

Set-jetters drawn to the Namib can explore its vast dunes and gravel plains on a guided tour, ideally as part of a wider Namibian adventure taking in the country's famous desert scenery and dramatic skies. It is a bucket-list landscape for fans of raw, elemental travel, best approached with proper planning, a sturdy vehicle and plenty of respect for the heat.