Southern Africa
Namibia
Safari as a road trip — the world's oldest desert, towering dunes, desert-adapted wildlife and skies full of stars.
Namibia is the one you drive. It’s safari turned road trip: empty gravel roads, the apricot dunes of Sossusvlei, desert elephants in Damaraland, and the eerie Skeleton Coast where the fog rolls in off the Atlantic. Wildlife is sparser and harder-won than further east, but the landscapes are like nowhere else on the planet, and the night skies are the best I’ve ever seen.
Field notes and lodge reviews for Namibia are below.
Main destinations
Etosha
A great salt pan ringed by waterholes — game gathers at your feet.
Explore →Sossusvlei & the Namib
The towering apricot dunes of the world's oldest desert.
Explore →Skeleton Coast
Shipwrecks, fog and desert lions where the dunes meet the sea.
Explore →Damaraland
Desert-adapted elephant and rhino among ancient red rock.
Explore →Zambezi (Caprivi)
The lush, river-fed exception — a corridor of proper big game.
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Field notes on Namibia
Field notes on Namibia are on the way — I'm writing them as I travel.