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1 Sights 4 Sleeping
r Beaches 5 Eating
PLAN YOUR TRIP
2 Activities 6 Drinking
Your planning tool kit
Photos & suggestions to help
C Courses 3 Entertainment
you create the perfect trip. T Tours 7 Shopping
z Festivals
& Events
Information
8 & Transport
All reviews are ordered in our writers’ preference,
starting with their most preferred option. Additionally:
Eating and Sleeping reviews are ordered by price
range (budget, midrange, top end) and, within these
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% Telephone number f Ferry
h Opening hours j Tram
SURVIVAL GUIDE p Parking d Train
n Nonsmoking apt apartments
Your at-a-glance reference
a Air-conditioning d double rooms
Vital practical information
i Internet access dm dorm beds
for a smooth trip.
W Wi-fi access q quad rooms
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E English-language menu ste suites
c Family-friendly tr triple rooms
# Pet-friendly tw twin rooms
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Southern
Africa
Malawi
p118
Zambia
p566
Mozambique
Victoria Falls p169
p549
Zimbabwe
p617
Namibia
p242 Botswana
p42

Swaziland
p530

Lesotho
p97
South Africa
p322

Anthony Ham,
James Bainbridge, Lucy Corne, Mary Fitzpatrick,
Trent Holden, Brendan Sainsbury
 PLAN ON THE ROAD
YOUR TRIP
Welcome to Southern BOTSWANA. . . . . . . . . 42 MOZAMBIQUE . . . . . 169
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Gaborone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Maputo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Southern Africa Map. . . . . 6
Mokolodi Nature Southern
Southern Africa’s Top 17. . 8 Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . 182
Need to Know. . . . . . . . . . 16 Eastern Botswana . . . . . . 50 Ponta d’Ouro &
If You Like…. . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Francistown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Ponta Malongane. . . . . . . . 182
Month by Month. . . . . . . . 21 Limpopo National Park. . . 184
Makgadikgadi &
Itineraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Nxai Pans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Central Mozambique . . . 195
Planning a Safari . . . . . . . 31 Makgadikgadi Pans Beira. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Southern Africa National Park . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Northern
at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Nxai Pans National Park. . . 57 Mozambique . . . . . . . . . 206
Chobe National Park . . . . 58 Nampula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Okavango Delta . . . . . . . . 65 Mozambique Island. . . . . . 210
Maun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Pemba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Moremi Game Reserve . . . . 74 Quirimbas Archipelago . . 224
Kalahari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Understand
Mozambique . . . . . . . . . . 228
Central Kalahari
Game Reserve. . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Survival Guide. . . . . . . . 233
Understand Botswana. . . 81
NAMIBIA . . . . . . . . . . 242
MARK READ/LONELY PLANET ©

Survival Guide. . . . . . . . . 87
Windhoek. . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
North-Central
LESOTHO. . . . . . . . . . . 97 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Maseru. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Etosha National Park. . . . 260
Northeastern Northern Namibia . . . . 264
Highlands. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The Caprivi Strip . . . . . . . 266
Southern Lesotho. . . . . 108 Northwestern
Understand Lesotho . . . 111 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Survival Guide. . . . . . . . .114 Damaraland. . . . . . . . . . . . 269
SOSSUSVLEI P289
The Kaokoveld . . . . . . . . . . 272
MALAWI. . . . . . . . . . . 118 The Skeleton Coast. . . . . . 275
Lilongwe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Central Nambia. . . . . . . . 277
Northern Malawi. . . . . . . 126 Swakopmund . . . . . . . . . . . 277
RADEK BOROVKA/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Karonga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Walvis Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Livingstonia. . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Southern Namibia . . . . . 292
Central Malawi . . . . . . . . 136 Lüderitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Nkhotakota . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Fish River Canyon . . . . . . 297
Cape Maclear . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Understand Namibia . . . 301
Southern Malawi . . . . . . 144 Survival Guide. . . . . . . . .311
Liwonde. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Majete Wildlife Reserve. . . 157
SOUTH AFRICA. . . . . 322
Understand Malawi . . . . 158 Cape Town. . . . . . . . . . . . 323
MAKGADIKGADI PANS Western Cape . . . . . . . . . 355
NATIONAL PARK P55 Survival Guide. . . . . . . . 162
 Contents
UNDERSTAND

Winelands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Understand Southern Africa

The Overberg . . . . . . . . . . 364 Swaziland. . . . . . . . . . . . 544 Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Garden Route . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Survival Guide. . . . . . . . 546 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Eastern Cape. . . . . . . . . . 382 Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
Garden Route East. . . . . . 382 VICTORIA FALLS . . . 549 Wildlife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Sunshine Coast . . . . . . . . 386 Livingstone . . . . . . . . . . . . 554 Music in
Southern Africa . . . . . . . 695
KwaZulu-Natal . . . . . . . 404 Victoria Falls. . . . . . . . . . . 559
Environment . . . . . . . . . . 701
Durban. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Zululand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 ZAMBIA . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Free State . . . . . . . . . . . 440 Lusaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Bloemfontein . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Eastern Zambia. . . . . . . . 577
Gauteng. . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 South Luangwa
Johannesburg. . . . . . . . . . 449 National Park . . . . . . . . . . 578
Soweto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 North Luangwa
National Park . . . . . . . . . . 584
Pretoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Mpumalanga . . . . . . . . . . 471 Southern Zambia . . . . . 584 SURVIVAL
Nelspruit (Mbombela). . . . 471 Lower Zambezi
National Park . . . . . . . . . . 585
GUIDE
Kruger National Park. . . 476
Western Zambia . . . . . . 590
Limpopo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Directory A–Z . . . . . . . . . 714
Kafue National Park. . . . . 590
Polokwane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
Northern Zambia . . . . . . 596
Bela-Bela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484 Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736
The Copperbelt. . . . . . . 603
North West Province . . 489 Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
Understand Namibia . . 605
Sun City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
Survival Guide. . . . . . . . 610
Northern Cape . . . . . . . 495
Kimberley . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
ZIMBABWE . . . . . . . . 617
Kgalagadi
Transfrontier Park . . . . . . . 501 Harare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
Understand Northern Zimbabwe. . . 629
South Africa . . . . . . . . . 505 Kariba Town. . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Survival Guide. . . . . . . . 518 Eastern Highlands . . . . . 633
Mutare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
SWAZILAND . . . . . . . 530 Bvumba Mountains . . . . . 635
Mbabane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 Chimanimani. . . . . . . . . . . 637
Central Swaziland . . . . 534 The Midlands
Ezulwini Valley . . . . . . . . . 534 & Southeastern
Northwestern Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Swaziland. . . . . . . . . . . . 540 Masvingo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Northeastern Great Zimbabwe. . . . . . . . 640
Swaziland. . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 Western Zimbabwe. . . . 643
Hlane Royal Bulawayo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
National Park . . . . . . . . . . . 541
Understand
Mlawula
Nature Reserve. . . . . . . . . 542 Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Mkhaya Game Reserve. . 543 Survival Guide. . . . . . . . 656
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4

Welcome to
Southern Africa
An astonishingly diverse region fused
by its prolific wildlife, breathtaking
landscapes and remnants of ancient
culture, Southern Africa is Africa at its
most memorable.

Wildlife Watching Cultural Experiences

Southern Africa has some of Africa’s greatest For insight into extraordinary rock art left
safari destinations: Kruger, Chobe, Etosha, by ancestors of the San, visit Tsodilo Hills in
South Luangwa and the Okavango Delta. Botswana and the extensive rock-art galler-
The sheer number of elephants, lions, leop- ies in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
ards, hyenas, rhinos, buffaloes, antelope and Step back through the centuries in the
myriad other species will quickly overwhelm cultural melting pot of Mozambique Island;
your camera. Spot them on self-drives, stay in a mud hut in Zimbabwe and watch
guided wildlife drives or charter flights…and Shona sculptors at work; prop up the bar at
if that’s not up close and personal enough, a shebeen in Soweto; or mingle with Basotho
what about the chance to track highly people in Lesotho. Southern Africa has so
endangered black rhino…on foot? Or the many different takes on African culture,
chance to see the fabled black-maned lions both ancient and contemporary, that it can
of the Kalahari, or the desert elephants of be difficult to know where to begin.
Namibia? Or explore the Caprivi Strip, one
of Africa’s emerging wildlife destinations, Adventure Activities
before the rest of the world catches on. Namibia is Southern Africa’s headquarters
for adrenaline-pumping fun, but there’s ad-
Landscapes venture to be had all over the region. Sail by
There’s famous Table Mountain rising high dhow past remote islands off Mozambique’s
above Cape Town, that mighty gash hacked jagged coastline, abseil Livingstonia in Ma-
out of the earth’s surface at Fish River Can- lawi, and try tackling the ferocious rapids
yon, and the desertscapes of the Kalahari, down the Zambezi River or bungeeing from
but the lonely rural tracks that take you out a bridge at Victoria Falls. In South Africa,
into an otherwise trackless wilderness are the Garden Route with its old-growth forests
just as memorable. In Namibia, huge slabs of offers shark-cage diving, surfing, skydiving,
flat-topped granite rise from mists of wind- canoeing and kloofing (canyoning). But it’s
blown sand and swirling dust. And Zambian in Swakopmund in Namibia where you’ll
floodplains are dotted with acacia trees and truly take off, with the stirring juxtaposition
flanked by escarpments of dense woodland. of sand dunes and Atlantic Ocean waves
Want to see all the landscapes the region has providing a splendid backdrop to so many
to offer? Put aside a lifetime. acts of sheer joy.
 5
MARZIA FRANCESCHINI/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

Why I Love Southern Africa

By Anthony Ham, Writer
Southern Africa ticks all my Africa boxes at once. This is one of the greatest wildlife shows on
earth. I love the sight of lions on a kill or black rhinos communing in secret at an Etosha wa-
tering hole. Or the possibility of seeing desert elephants and tracking rhinos on foot amid the
stirring beauty of Damaraland. Or the chance to learn the wisdom of the ancients in a San
community in the Kalahari. And I love the search for Lady Liuwa as hyenas stream across the
plain at Liuwa Plain in Zambia. What’s not to love?
For more about our writers, see p768

Above: Skeleton Coast (p275), Namibia

Southern Africa
Victoria Falls
LUANDA The mightiest waterfall DEMOCRATIC
on earth (p559) REPUBLIC OF
CONGO
10ºS
Chobe National Park
An astounding array
Mwinilunga
of wildlife (p58) Solwezi

Zam
ANGOLA West Lunga
NP

be
Okavango Delta

zi
Zambezi
A watery paradise

River
for animals (p65) Liuwa e
Plain NP Kafu

Mongu Kafue NP
Etosha National Park Lake
Itezhi-
Wildlife watching Senanga Tezhi
doesn’t get any easier (p260) Sioma
Ngwezi NP Katima
ne Riv Bwabwata NP Mulilo
Kune er Oshikango Okavango Livingstone
River ip Kasane
i Str
Ruacana Oshakati
Rundu Capriv Victoria Falls
Khaudom Chobe NP Hwange
Etosha Tsumeb GR Tsodilo Moremi Hwange NP
Skeleton NP Hills
Coast Park Grootfontein Okavango WR Makgadikgadi
Otavi Delta
er Waterberg & Nxai Pan NP
Terrace Bay Riv Outjo
Plateau Park
Maun
b Salt Pans
ua
r

20ºS Torra Bay

ve

Otjiwarongo
H Ugab
Ri

ATLANTIC National Brandberg NAMIBIA Orapa

West Coast (2573m) Ghanzi
Central
OCEAN RA Gobabis Kalahari Serowe
Henties Bay
Swakopmund WINDHOEK GR Mahalapye
Walvis Bay Rehoboth Khutse
pricorn Namib- GR
Tropic of Ca Naukluft Naukluft
BOTSWANA
GABORONE
Park (1973m)
Sossusvlei Mariental Kgalagadi Kanye
Nam

City
Sossusvlei Maltahöhe Transfrontier Lobatse
The world’s oldest sand Park
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Brukkaros Mmabatho
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Kolmanskop Fish River Hotazel
Kuruman
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Ri

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Ai-Ais Upington Vaa
Fish River Canyon Richtersveld NP r Vaalbos NP Kimberley
A classical symphony i ve
ve

Orange R BLOEMFONTEIN
in stone (p297)
Ri
e

Springbok
kav

ho
SOUTH AFRICA De Aar Mo
30ºS Aliwal North
Middelburg
Cederberg Karoo NP Queenstown
Wilderness Beaufort West
Graaff-
Area Reinet
Saldanha Grahamstown
Cape Town Addo Elephant NP
Worcester George Knysna
Paarl
Africa’s most
beautiful city (p323) CAPE TOWN Stellenbosch
Port
Jeffrey's
Cape of Mossel Bay Elizabeth
Hermanus Bay
Good Hope
35ºS 10ºE 15ºE 20ºE 25ºE
 0 1000 km
0 600 miles

Lake Tanganyika
Mbala South Luangwa
Lake Nakonde
National Park
Nsumbu Wild walking safaris (p578)
Mweru NP Quirimbas Archipelago
Kawambwa Kasama Chitipa Mozambique at its most
Lake TANZANIA enchanting (p224)
Bangweulu Livingstonia
North Likoma Island
Luangwa Nyika NP 10ºS
Mansa Palma
Mpika NP Mzuzu Nkhata Bay
Rovuma River
Kasanka Moçimboa

Malawi
Chingola NP Kasungu Cóbuè Niassa da Praia COMOROS
NP Reserve Quirimbas
Metangula Archipelago
Kitwe Kanona
South MALAWI Lichinga Metoro
Luangwa Pemba

Lake
er

Kapiri NP LILONGWE
Riv

Kabwe
Mposhi Cassacatiza Mandimba Lake Malawi
ZAMBIA MOZAMBIQUE A lake that defines
LUSAKA Lower Liwonde a country (p141)
NP Namialo Nacala
Zambezi NP Lake Chilwa
Lochinvar Mana Lake Cahora Tete Mozambique Island
NP Mt Mulanje Nampula
Chirundu Pools NP Bassa Blantyre 15ºS
Siavonga Kariba (3001m)
Za Nyamapanda Angoche
Matusadona mb
one NP ez
Chizarira
HARARE Nyanga i
NP NP Gorongosa
Ri Quelimane
ZIMBABWE Marondera NP ve
r Mozambique Island
Kwe Kwe Step back in time (p210)
Mutare
Gweru Chimanimani
Bulawayo Masvingo NP
Beira
Mt Binga
ne l

Matobo (2436m)
NP Gwanda
Ch a n

Francistown Gonarezhou Save River

Bazaruto NP
NP Inhassoro
Messina Zinave NP
Selebi-
er
Vilankulo Great Zimbabwe
Lim

Phikwe v
o Ri Banhine Southern Africa’s greatest
op MADAGASCAR
pop

Kruger NP medieval city (p640)

mp
Li
o

NP
Rive

Polokwane Tropic of Capricor

Mo z a m b i q u e

v e r Inhambane n
(Pietersburg) ts Ri Toliara
r

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Sun ifa Praia de
City Ol Canyon NR
Bilene Závora
PRETORIA Nelspruit Xai-Xai
Namaacha
MBABANE MAPUTO
Johannesburg Mkhaya GR Inhaca Island
SWAZILAND Ponta D'ouro
Piet Retief
Kroonstad
Bethlehem ZULULAND
Mkhaya Game Reserve
Ladysmith INDIAN
LESOTHO Richards Bay Rare opportunity to
r
ve

view black rhinos (p543)

Ri

MASERU OCEAN
Pietermaritzburg
Semonkong
Durban
Malealea

30ºS
Mthatha
Port St Johns The Drakensberg ELEVATION
The mountains that 2000m
crown South Africa (p427) 1000m
East 500m
London 200m
Lesotho Lodges 0
Mix accommodation
with culture (p97)
30ºE 35ºE 40ºE 45ºE 35ºS
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Southern
Africa’s

Top
17

Victoria Falls Okavango Delta

1 The largest, most beautiful and simply

the greatest waterfall in the world. As
iconic to Africa as ‘Dr Livingstone, I pre-
2 The Okavango (p65) in Botswana is an
astonishing, beautiful and wild place.
Home to wildlife spectacles of rare power
sume’, thunderous Victoria Falls (p549) and drama, the delta changes with the
will blow your mind and soak your shirt. It’s seasons as flood waters ebb and flow, cre-
the sheer scale of the falls that is its most ating islands, river channels and pathways
impressive feature. A million litres of water for animals that move this way and that at
a second are funnelled over the 1908m the waters’ behest. No visit to the delta is
drop, creating a plume of spray that can be complete without drifting in a traditional
seen for kilometres. When you’re in South- mokoro (dugout canoe). Exclusive and
ern Africa this really is a sight that you remote lodges are an Okavango special-
should move heaven and earth to see. ity, and self-drivers can find outstanding
campsites in the heart of the Okavango’s
Moremi Game Reserve.
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DIETMAR TEMPS/SHUTTERSTOCK © TORSTEN KAROCK/GETTY IMAGES ©

10

Chobe National Park Fish River Canyon

3 Botswana’s Chobe National Park

(p58) ranks among the elite of African
safari destinations. For a start, there are
4 The enormous gash in the surface
of the planet in the south of Namibia
is an almost implausible landscape, and
more elephants here than anywhere else the canyon’s rounded edges and sharp
on earth, numbering in the tens of thou- corners create a symphony in stone of
PL A N YO U R TRI P S O U T H E R N A F R I C A’ S T O P 1 7

sands. And they’re big – really big. Then gigantic and imposing proportions. Seen
you have the iconic landscapes of Savuti most clearly in the morning, Fish River
with its elephant-eating lions. There’s Lin- Canyon (p297) is desolate, immense and
yanti, one of the best places on the conti- seemingly carved into the earth by a mas-
nent to see the highly endangered African ter builder. The exposed rock and lack of
wild dog. And finally the Chobe Riverfront, plantlife only adds to the effect and invari-
where most of Africa’s charismatic mega- ably inspires thoughtful reflection and a
fauna come to drink. quiet sense of awe.

BILDAGENTUR ZOONAR GMBH/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

4
MYTHO/GETTY IMAGES ©
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WESTEND61/GETTY IMAGES ©

OLAF HOLLAND/SHUTTERSTOCK ©

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Etosha National The Drakensberg Kruger National

Park
6 The majestic moun- Park

5 7
There are few places tains and foothills of Kruger (p476) is one of
in Southern Africa that the World Heritage–listed Africa’s great wilder-
can compete with the wild- Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg ness experiences and the
life possibilities of extraor- Park (p427) are among mightiest of the country’s
dinary Etosha National South Africa’s most awe- national parks – a trip here
Park (p260) in Namibia. inspiring landscapes. Drak- will sear itself in your mind.
A network of waterholes ensberg means ‘Dragon Its accessibility, numbers
dispersed among the bush Mountains’ in Afrikaans, and variety of wildlife, and
and grasslands surround- while the Zulu named the staggering size and range
ing the pan – a blindingly range Quathlamba (‘Bat- of activities make Kruger
white, flat, saline desert tlement of Spears’); both unique and compelling.
that stretches into the ho- convey the area’s backdrop From wilderness trails and
rizon – attracts enormous of incredible peaks. People bush walks to mountain
congregations of animals, have lived here for thou- biking and remote 4WD
with lions and black rhinos sands of years, evidenced trails, there are myriad
highlights among many. A by the many San rock-art opportunities to enjoy both
single waterhole can ren- sites. With its Zulu villages, the wild and the wildlife.
der thousands of sightings wilderness areas and good Kruger is definitely one
over the course of a day. accommodation and eater- of the finest places to see
Etosha is simply one of the ies, this is the perfect place animals – big and small –
best places on the planet for photographers, hikers in the world.
for wildlife viewing. and adventurous travellers.
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Kgalagadi Sossusvlei South Africa’s
Transfrontier
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(p289) rank among the Dutch architecture
Kgalagadi (p501) cov-
most beautiful desert land- dots an endlessly photo-
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scapes on earth. They’re genic landscape of rolling
km of raw Kalahari in South
also one of the more hills and vines in neat rows.
Africa’s Northern Cape
improbable: the sands The Winelands (p355) is
and Botswana, roamed by
originated in the Kalahari the quintessential Cape,
some iconic Kalahari pred-
millions of years ago and where world-class wines
ators. This is an immense
are now reclaiming land are the icing on the pro-
land of sizzling sunsets, vel-
from the sea. The valley is verbial cake. Stellenbosch,
vety night skies and rolling
dotted by hulking dunes, Franschhoek and Paarl, the
red dunes. You might spot
and interspersed with un- area’s holy trinity of wine-
black-maned lions napping
earthly, dry vleis (marsh- tasting towns, host some of
under thorn trees or purr-
land). Clambering up the the southern hemisphere’s
ing along the road: the park
face of these constantly oldest, largest and prettiest
is a key global centre for
moving giants is a uniquely wine estates. But this is not
spotting big cats, home to
Namibian experience, and the only wine region – head
about 800 lions, cheetahs
as you survey the seem- to Tulbagh for sparkling
and leopards. But there are
ingly endless sand sea that wines, the heights of the
also brown hyenas, gor-
surrounds you, you’ll feel Cederberg for crisp sauvi-
geous gemsboks and all
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manner of desert-adapted
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