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 […]
Swakopmund
Swakopmund is Namibia’s coastal playground, a small town of German colonial buildings and palm-lined streets between the Atlantic Ocean and the Namib Desert. The cool sea air is a relief after the heat of the interior, and the town has good restaurants, galleries, bakeries and a relaxed feel. It is also an adventure capital. You […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
4 Days Rwanda Royal Heritage and Nyungwe
Kigali, the King’s Palace at Nyanza, the Ethnographic Museum in Huye and a night on the edge of Nyungwe Forest.
6 Days Rwanda Gorillas, Twin Lakes and Bisoke
Gorillas, golden monkeys, the Bisoke crater hike and a day on the Twin Lakes, with nights in Kigali and the Virungas.
5 Days Golden Monkeys, Bisoke and Bwindi Gorillas
Golden monkeys and the Bisoke crater hike in Rwanda, then across the border for gorillas in Bwindi.
4 Days Rwanda Gorillas and Chimpanzees
Gorillas in the Virungas and chimpanzees in Nyungwe, linked by a helicopter flight across the country.