National Rural Tourism Strategy: !Xaus Lodge leads the way
The recently released Rural Tourism Strategy document issued by the South African National Department of Tourism in April 2012 contains reference to an academic thesis which used the !Xaus Lodge case study as a significant portion of the work. We are pleased to note that the document contains reference in paragraph 2.8.1 (pages
SÜDAFRIKA: BETT BEIM BUSCHMANN
Wennman dann so dasteht unter der Dusche wie Gott einen geschaffen hat, splitterfasernackt, die Zeltfenster hochgeklappt, die Tür sperrangelweit offen, damit man möglichst viel von dem sieht, was der Herrgott an Natur hierher gezaubert hat, dann könnte man schreien vor Freude. Lesen Sie den Rest der Geschichte hier…
‘Lodge-ical’ Thinking : a PhD thesis
Lauren Dyll-Myklebust has recently been awarded her PhD by the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal for her thesis ‘Lodge-ical’ Thinking and Development Communication: !Xaus Lodge as a Public-Private-Community Partnership in Tourism. Lauren’s thesis is one of a number of academic studies that has used field work from !
The Lion and the Ostrich – A Bushman Story
Written by Graham Williams, management consultant and storyteller with Halo and Noose I’ve returned from spending a week in the arid Kgalagadi, listening to the desert silence, taking in the 360° horizon, and encountering a small group of Bushmen. About the Bushmen and how we/others see them The original inhabitants of the su
We recently hosted a very special wedding at !Xaus Lodge – the marriage of Phil and Sam Hockey. It was a dramatic day with the backdrop of huge thunderclouds, promising the blessing of the Kalahari: rain. Nature co-operated with the wedding plans, and one of the results is a set of spectacular photos by the wildlife p
Big Sky Country by Kate Turkington
At dawn, I sit on my wooden balcony at !Xaus and watch Venus. It’s a dazzling sight. It pulsates with golden-red light as the swathe of the Milky Way and the countless bright desert stars begin to fade. Then, as the sun rises, I watch a herd of 50 gemsbok wander across the pan, stopping [...]
!Kgalagadi by Melissa Siebert
If you stand, barefoot, amidst the rolling red sand dunes of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, which forms the Kalahari’s’ southwestern tip, you can hear volumes. The loud hush of 40-degree heat fills the day, backed by the ubiquitous twitter of scaly-feathered finches and the wind rising from the south in the afternoons. At
Learning by experience
February 28, 2011
by webmaster
I grew up on an isolated farm in the Karoo, a semi desert part of South Africa. So there is little wonder that I am not daunted by the enormous distances that are the reality of the lives of the people who live at !Xaus Lodge. [...]
