Light pollution has killed stargazing for most city folk. A bright metropolis skyline may be beautiful, but it certainly isn’t doing the likes of Orion any favors, either. As a result, travelers have ...

Courtesy of Gondwana Collection Desert Whisper, a villa near Namibia’s Sossusvlei salt pan. Space. Miles and miles of space. Locals seem to revel in the sheer emptiness of Namibia, and they're quick ...

It’s not often that hotels located in stunning landscapes come close to matching that natural beauty, but the &Beyond Sossuvlei Desert Lodge is no ordinary hotel. Located in the surreal desert ...

Sossusvlei’s circular rooms were modeled after naturally-occuring “fairy circles” – patches of land devoid of vegetation up to 5 meters in diameter that occur throughout the plains. River sand was ...

“Greatest sunset ever,” Turek said when the light had finally died. The rain, which had been stalking us on the savanna, was ...

With its own private entrance to the neighbouring national park, Wilderness Safaris’ Little Kulala is perfectly situated for the giant dunes and miraculous watering holes of Sossusvlei, one of Namibia ...

Vast and inhospitable, the Namib Desert in south west Africa is a land of ghosts. Along a notorious stretch of shoreline known as the Skeleton Coast lie the wrecks of ships stranded in the morning ...

With its expansive dunes and beaches, Skeleton Coast is among Namibia’s most stunning natural parks. It’s also among its least visited. This all-inclusive lodge, which opened in June, may change that.

Fairy circles are circular patches of perennial grasses with a barren center that emerge in the deserts along the southwest coast of Africa. Dotting the Namibian deserts, these rings can persist for ...