AFRICA: 10 oF the best
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AFRICA’s 10 most extraordinary experiences
stAR GAze In the kAlAhARI
ClImb the WoRld’s tAllest dunes botsWAnA
nAmIbIA First to emerge were the pointers, so-
For every three steps you take up, you slide down called because they point to the southern Cross.
two. After a while you stop and look behind, to catch a A shooting star flared overhead as scorpio dipped
breath and be reminded of the reason for all your exertion. its curling tail to the east. Then a satellite drifted
All around, dominating the view, are sinuous sand sculptures: from the west, voyaging across the Milky Way
GlIde In A mokoRo terracotta dunes forming perfect curves — each partly until it disappeared, snuffed out by the moon’s
thRouGh the deltA iridescent, partly in shadow. Sossusvlei is perhaps Africa’s glow. The only sound was the gentle pulsing of
botsWAnA most beautiful sight. blood in my ears. There can be few places left so
There is nothing on earth as restful totally removed from the noise, pollution and
as setting out into a bright Okavango clutter of modern life. The Makgakgadi Pans are
dawn in the bows of a mokoro a rare wilderness, somewhere where nothing
(dugout canoe). Soundlessly you glide means everything.
forward. A lazy twist of the boatman’s
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