The ‘great white place’. A herd of wildebeest trek, in single file, across the 5000sq-km saltpan.
PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANS LANTING
As the sky purpled into evening, we drew up alongside a deserted waterhole. We had barely rolled down the windows onto the warm air when eight elephants ambled out of the bush. We watched as they drank, the two tiny calves half submerging their faces in the violet water, tails in the air. The sun sank lower and Aperol-orange tendrils crept across the horizon.
A lioness cools off at the Newbrownii waterhole, a few kilometres from Okaukuejo Rest Camp;
DANA ALLEN