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

!Xaus Lodge won the 2010 Imvelo Awards for Best Practice Economic Impact (independent category) In November 2010. This award is an annual is awarded by FEDHASA (The Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa ) to recognise tourism and hospitality businesses that make a real, measurable and sustained contribution to Res

!Xaus Lodge is so isolated, living as we do in a remote corner of the Kalahari desert, that we pump our own water from underground. Because Lodge is at the edge of a large salt pan, this natural water is more saline than the Dead Sea! [...]

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. [...]