Hailed as a conservation success story, Namibia takes its name from what’s believed to be the world’s oldest, and certainly one of its most impressively deserty deserts. Along with its magnificently adapted rhinos, lions, and elephants, and the austerely haunting Skeleton Coast, where uncompromising desert flows directly into equally indomitable ocean, Namibia is famed for its sand dunes, the highest in the world. A number of giants vie for top spot, but the sandy monarch of all is probably Big Daddy, which, at 1264 feet is 28 Shaquille O’Neals higher than the Chrysler Building.
It’s true of all of Africa’s great gamelands, but Namibia may be the ultimate place to contemplate Isak Dinesen’s insight that “there is a morally edifying quality in the very aspect of an elephant–on seeing four elephants walking together on the plain, I at once felt that I had been shown black stone sculptures of the four major Prophets.”
Beginning with Namibia’s vast and gorgeous wilderness, then to the urban delights of Cape Town and its salubrious Winelands, ending with superb game viewing in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve.
15 Days from $26,900 per person
The Namib Desert’s elegantly shaped dunes are the world’s highest, rising like sandy tsunamis over stark, thought-provoking landscapes, under deep cerulean skies.
Supremely desolate, the Skeleton Coast reveals astonishing details, large and small: towering dunes, desert animals, and an endlessly theatrical meeting of land and water.
Fans of the faraway delight in Etosha, whose vast salt plain and the animals who make their living on it are fascinatingly unusual.
Admired for its homey charm, Swakopmund is Namibia’s gateway to desert and sea adventuring and whale watching at nearby Walvis Bay.
Mile-high Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, provides a lovely, restful prelude to a safari into Namibia’s otherworldly desert landscapes.
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