A lone sentinel in the Kalahari
A thousand hectares of big sky country.
Red dunes, golden grass, a gleaming white salt pan — and horizons that seemingly stretch forever beneath fiery sunsets.
Red dunes, golden grass, a gleaming white salt pan — and horizons that seemingly stretch forever beneath fiery sunsets.
A self-drive loop through our own game reserve — springbok, oryx and steenbok on your own clock. 4×4 needed for the dune sections.
A proper half-day of red-dune 4×4 driving — crests, straats and grass plains, with the farm to yourself.
We take you up the big dune with drinks as the light goes long. The braai shed at the lookout has the best table in the Northern Cape.
The Kalahari's great contrast: a massive gleaming pan set against red dunes. At dusk it glows pink and silver — guests call it the moment that gets them.
You may be tempted to think of the Kalahari as just sand — it isn't. The tree and savannah veld hums with life: colonies of sociable weavers building their haystack nests, sand-grouse and falcons overhead, springbok on the hot sand.
Look out for the rare scimitar oryx — once found across the whole of North Africa, now classified as extinct in the wild — and, of course, the delightful meerkats this corner of the Kalahari is famous for.
The nomadic ǂKhomani San are believed to be the oldest permanent residents of southern Africa — and it's the same flora and fauna that sustained them that surrounds Loch Maree today. You're not visiting empty desert; you're visiting the world's oldest neighbourhood.
Three camps, forty-two beds, one veld. Pick yours and come read the sand for yourself.
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