Namibia: dunes & Etosha

Red dunes, endless silence and the waterholes of Etosha.

After landing we drive to a lodge on the edge of the city, for a first evening under the Namibian sky.

Over gravel roads and mountain passes into the desert. The land turns red and the horizon opens.

Before first light you stand at the foot of some of the highest dunes on earth. In Deadvlei the dead camelthorns have stood on a white clay pan for centuries.

Through the Kuiseb canyon to Swakopmund, where the desert meets the Atlantic.

A rugged land of rock and dry riverbeds, home to desert-adapted elephants.

Around the white salt pan, elephants, giraffes and lions come to the waterholes. In the evening you watch at the camp's floodlit pool.

One last morning drive, then back to Windhoek for your flight home.