At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand dune on the eastern edge of the Namib ... from South Africa, it was ...

It was our second day at Zannier Hotels Sonop, located deep in the Namib desert of Namibia, in southern Africa. We had arrived ... interspersed with large granite boulders. The silence was only ...