Luxury Kalahari Safaris

The landscape of the southern Kalahari region in southeast Namibia features red sand dunes scattered with grass, shrubs and camel thorn trees.

This vast arid region is a harsh environment, with long dried-up river beds and huge salt pans, yet it provides the setting for excellent wildlife-viewing and fascinating cultural encounters with the San bushmen who live in this semi-desert.

Whilst there isn’t a national park in the areas of Namibia covered by the Kalahari, there are several lodges which allow visitors to explore this desert area.

The lodges offer guided drives to spot the desert-adapted wildlife - including blue wildebeest, eland, springbok, oryx, giraffe, zebra, meerkat, bat-eared fox and yellow mongoose.

If you are very lucky you might glimpse a cheetah or a leopard which are known to sporadically move through the region. The Kahalari is also known for its bird life, particularly eagles and vultures, as well as it’s reptiles and scorpions.

The nomadic San Bushmen have inhabited the Kalahari for over 30,000 years, living in hunter-gatherer family groups. Today they’re keen to share their knowledge of the land to visitors and on a guided walk with the San Bushmen you’ll learn about their survival and hunting skills which have been passed down through generations.