Hiking

The Kavango Open Africa Route

By Marita van Rooyen Although independent from the mother organisation Open Africa, the Kavango Open Africa Route (KOAR) forms part of the larger idea to utilise tourism as an economic platform to create and sustain jobs for rural communities throughout Southern …

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Grootberg Lodge – People and wildlife in equilibrium

Text by Jana-Mari Smith Perched 1 620 metres above sea level, Grootberg Lodge in Damaraland offers some of the most spectacular views in Namibia, if not Southern Africa. Renowned for its starkly rugged and spellbinding landscape, Damaraland in Namibia’s remote north-western …

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Klein-Aus Vista – the new adventure destination in the south-west of Namibia

Text and photographs Ron Swilling In south-western Namibia – not far from the Namib-Naukluft Park, home to the wild horses; the Sperrgebiet, once forbidden diamond-mining territory; and the legendary mining town of Kolmanskop, where desert sand filters into houses that once …

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