Several conservation projects that have helped stabilize the country’s cheetah population also let travellers get up close and personal with the vulnerable felines. Despite reaching speeds of up to ...

THE holidays are here. The rains have come early, and like the famous note "the person who deserves the most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read". In that spirit, here ...

THERE are probably hundreds of unregistered holiday homes and flats being rented out at the coast during the December holidays, and according to local agents and Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) inspectors ...

Driving along a dry river-bed in Damaraland – while looking for elephants under the beady gaze of lappet-faced vultures – certainly beats the morning rush-hour commute. Not that the beasts in question ...

How do you experience the best Namibia has to offer in a two-week trip? By following the ultimate itinerary created by our expert Pippa de Bruyn I felt my atheism wither and wilt in the heat of the ...

NAMIBIA might be 12 times the size of Ireland but, with a population of only 2.5 million people and all the wide open spaces that implies, it is truly a nature wonderland. The southern African country ...

Namibia’s vast wilderness can play tricks on the eye. A combination of the shimmering heat haze refracts off the dazzling white surface tricks and teases your mind. It’s the third day on my seven-day ...

A cavalcade of monster trucks thunder through a fiery red desert. A woman kneels in anguish on the ridge of a towering dune as the sand flows and ripples away all around. A vehicle explodes into a ...

I had never thought that one day I would consider the middle of the African savannah as being rather tame. But sipping G&Ts at the exclusive Ongava Lodge, beside Namibia's Etosha National Park, I felt ...

Kalahari bushmen call this place “the land God made in anger”, and I can see why. In the desert below is Deadvlei, a scorched white expanse of clay, peppered with contorted acacia tree corpses, ...