IN TO THE WILD

It’s no longer enough for Africa’s luxury lodges to offer stylish safaris—now travellers want proof their trips help save animals and ecosystems. Two new properties in Namibia, one of which is backed by Angelina Jolie, lead the way

By Oliver Giles

You’re in room one, so if a lion roars in the night you’ll feel it in your bones,” says Etienne Fourie, camp manager at Anderssons at Ongava, a luxury safari lodge situated on the edge of Etosha National Park in a remote corner of northern Namibia. He’s not joking. Anderssons, which opened in April, is made up of eight plush huts that curl into the surrounding scrub around a central waterhole, leaving black and white rhinos, elephants, whole herds of antelope and Africa’s famous big cats free to pad in and out of the camp in search of water, sometimes mere metres from guests’ beds. Room one is the farthest into the bush, giving a front-row seat to this parade of wildlife. Within an hour of my arrival, a family…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2019

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