A sunny beach is eager to please, but the desert challenges you to take it on. It s a forbidding landscape but one that is sublime in its solitude, starry skies, stillness and space.
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Share: The Desert Whisper, with its wall of glass, offers two guests complete privacy and luxurious shelter in the Namib Desert, near the Tropic of Capricorn. (Sharri Whiting De Masi)
Long before 2020 became the year of social distancing, Namibia was the ultimate destination for remote luxury. New properties are ever more high-end, and ever more private. Some are grand desert hideaways for only two guests, who share infinite desert horizons with no other humans (except perhaps the dedicated chef and driver, who appear only when summoned).
We retreated with anticipation to be the first at the
Desert Whisper, far into the Namib Desert, just as Namibia was preparing to open again to international tourists. Developed by the locally based Gondwana Collection Namibia group, which has spent more than two decades perfecting its 20 Namibian offerings, this one is the pinnacle.