Namibia is a landscape country first. The dunes at Sossusvlei and Deadvlei are sculptural, silent and worth a dawn start.
Etosha is the wildlife counterpoint: pale pans, busy waterholes, rhino and lion in a very different light from East African savannah.
Between them sit Damaraland’s desert-adapted elephants and the Skeleton Coast’s raw emptiness. Distances are real, so we fly some legs and keep road days honest.
