Best Things to Do in Namibia

• • Spotting the big cats -- lions, leopards, cheetahs -- as they approach the waterholes in Etosha National Park, sending zebras and antelope scattering.
  • Focusing your lens on the mammoth red dunes at Sossusvlei, perhaps the most photographed landscape features in all of Africa.
  • Tracking endangered black rhinos and desert-adapted elephants in the presence of a skilled guide.
  • Riding a hot air balloon over the desert to get the full view of the vast deserts below, a rugged patchwork of sands, plains, canyons, and mountains.
  • Encountering San -- with their distinctive clicking language -- and Himba tribal peoples whose ancestors have occupied these lands for millennia.
  • Coming upon ancient rock art depicting antelopes who look as though they could leap out from a nearby ravine today.
  • Visiting the isolated Skeleton Coast National Park to view the Cape fur seal colonies.
  • Drinking in the solitude and silence of a Namibian night while camping under a canopy of stars.
  • Relaxing at a lodge offering wellness treatments such as massage and mud therapy.