The actress-turned-director-turned-philanthropist met the hotelier while staying at Phum Baitang, Zannier’s laid-back lodge near Siem Rap, Cambodia. The property was her home base while she worked on ...

Opened earlier this summer, the 10-room property is perched above the sweeping sandy planes of Skeleton Coast National Park—a stretch of Atlantic coastline that, as the name suggests, is dotted with ...

Namibia’s wilderness—a land of volcanic mountains and epic dunes—is also the backdrop for a growing number of stylish hideaways. Namibia came onto the pop-culture radar three years ago, when Angelina ...

Ker & Downey Africa wants to help you live out your full Mad Max fantasy. The luxury travel company, headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, just unveiled a new safari inspired by George Miller’s ...

If there was ever a candidate for an obscure question on a television quiz show, it’s the Caprivi Strip in northern Namibia. A classic panhandle, the ultra-narrow strip separates Botswana and Angola ...

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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 ...

Ten comfortable, spacious adobe-style huts in the Huab valley; chief attraction is tracking desert elephant. Like Desert Rhino Camp and Serra Cafema (below) it is run by Wilderness Safaris, whose ...

After negotiating a shadowy pass between two expansive orange dunes, we roll out into a valley. Its steep walls are pockmarked with thousands of circles imprinted in the sand. They glint in the harsh ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There is something final about the town of Mowe Bay. Tracing a line up the Skeleton Coast, the band of desert on ...