| "To
my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to
experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a
position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for
granted.''
Bill Bryson, The Best American Travel Writing
Once the sole preserve of the Bushmen, Namibia has in in the last
thousand years played host first to the Bantu expansion, then to the
Portuguese, the Germans and, finally, to apartheid South Africa. It is,
as a result, a rich mix of traditions, and - now that power rests
firmly in the hands of Namibians - one of Africa's premier destinations
for those in search of the beautiful.
One of the most sparsely populated countries in the world, Namibia
is land in the truest sense of the word, and its terra-cotta
coloured deserts, the imposing central plateau, its stunning coastline
and the Kalahari's tawny bushvelt produce in the traveller a new way of
looking, of feeling, of understanding what it is like to stand in
country that has been so for two or three million years.
Unlike other countries on our portfolio, where the
kind of tailored travel experiences we offer have been in place for a
good deal longer, Namibia has yet to develop the depth and variety of
exclusive accommodation found in the likes of South Africa and Kenya.
However, while bush homes and mobile tented safaris are a thing of the
future, Namibia's relatively tourist free parks are varied, excellent
and accessible by air. |
