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Once you've had the big-game encounter of your dreams—watched lions stalk their prey or canoed round an angry male hippo—you'll be more ready to appreciate the subtler magic of the African landscapes. Bushveld, desert, forest, swamp, mountain, coast—each has distinctive wildlife and vegetation, and adventuring into each will open you to very different experiences. Nothing drives home the emptiness of Namaqualand, for example, like journeying through it on a camel. And nothing intensifies one's experience of a landscape like trying to stay alive while crossing it: creeping along Lesotho's mountain ledges on a sure-footed pony, mere inches from a thousand-foot drop; steeling yourself for a leap into a waterfall and its churning pool far below; crawling along behind a Bushman hunter stalking a spiral-horned kudu, a poisoned arrow poised on his bowstring.

However long you stay, you'll have an experience that goes beyond mere adrenaline seeking: You might witness a Bushman trance dancer heal a sick child, singing to the spirits as he raises the child to the stars. Or you may see the sun rise over the Namib Desert and realize that you are, for the first and perhaps only time in your life, surrounded by a pure and absolute silence. All are experiences that encourage the traveler to vow to never, ever again waste another precious moment of life.

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Classic Adventures Hike the Kruger Dive the Kwa-Zulu Coasts The Richtersveld by Camel Canoe the Lower Zambezi Raft the Upper Zambezi Tiger Fishing at Lake Kariba The Fish River Canyon The Okavango Delta from the Saddle Okavango, By Mokoro Elephant-Ride the Okavango

Off the Beaten Path Kloofing near Cape Town Lesotho on Horseback Hike Chimanimani Learn Polo-Cross Hunt with Bushmen Dune Boarding Ride the Namib Earthwatch Cheetah Project Bike the Botswana Pans Deep Kalahari

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