Sossusvlei and the Namib

The Namib is the oldest desert on Earth, and Sossusvlei is its greatest spectacle: a white clay pan surrounded by the tallest dunes in the world, glowing orange and red in the first and last light of day. The dunes rise more than 300 metres, with names like Dune 45 and Big Daddy, and climbing […]

Etosha National Park

Etosha National Park is Namibia’s greatest wildlife reserve, a vast area of savannah, woodland and a huge, shimmering white salt pan that can be seen from space. The park is famous for its waterholes, where animals gather in the dry season, and it is one of the easiest places in Africa to see elephants, lions, […]

Damaraland

Damaraland is a vast, rugged region of north-west Namibia, a landscape of ancient mountains, dry riverbeds and red granite hills that look unchanged for millions of years. It is a land of wide horizons, rock art, desert-adapted elephants and a quiet that settles over you at once. The area has two world-class attractions. Twyfelfontein is […]

Skeleton Coast

The Skeleton Coast is one of the world’s most remote and haunting coastlines, a strip of golden dunes meeting the cold Atlantic, with fog that rolls in most mornings and ships’ bones scattered along the shore. The Bushmen called it the Land God Made in Anger, and sailors called it the Gates of Hell. The […]

Namibia

Namibia is a country of space and silence: red dunes that rise 300 metres, a salt pan you can see from orbit, a coast of fog and shipwrecks, and some of the darkest skies on earth. It is one of the least crowded countries in Africa, and one of the easiest to travel, with good […]

Moremi Game Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve protects the eastern side of the Okavango Delta, where dry land meets permanent water. It was established in 1963 on the initiative of the local Batawana people, and it is among the wildest and most beautiful reserves in Africa, with floodplains, lagoons, mopane woodland and acacia forest. Moremi is one of the […]

Chobe National Park

Chobe National Park is home to the largest concentration of elephants in Africa, and the Chobe riverfront is the best place on the continent to watch them. In the dry season, herds of hundreds come down to the river to drink, bathe and play, and a boat trip at sunset puts you at eye level […]

Makgadikgadi Pans

The Makgadikgadi Pans are among the largest salt flats on Earth, a surreal white plain that shimmers under the sun and stretches to a flat horizon. They are the remains of a vast ancient lake, and today the landscape includes the Sua and Ntwetwe pans, baobab islands, grassland and the Boteti River. The pans change […]

Botswana

Botswana is Africa at its wildest and quietest. Its safari philosophy is simple: keep the camps small, keep the visitor numbers low, and let the wilderness do the rest. The result is a country where you can spend a morning with elephants and not see another vehicle. The Okavango Delta is the star, a flood […]

Okavango Delta

The Okavango Delta is one of the natural wonders of Africa, a vast inland delta where the Okavango River spreads out across the Kalahari sands and brings water, and with it life, to one of the driest parts of the continent. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a maze of channels, lagoons and palm-fringed […]

8 Days Rwanda Gorillas, Chimps and Big Five

Rwanda at an easy pace: Akagera’s savannah, the volcanoes, Lake Kivu and the rainforest of Nyungwe.

5 Days Rwanda Gorillas, Chimps and Akagera

Gorillas, chimpanzees and the Big Five in five days, flying where it saves time.