Nomad 2018/19 Hot List

The Nomad Team has widely traversed the region this past year. After much debate in-house and with input from our readers and a few key industry experts, we finally bring you our hot list! Herein you will find the properties that every discerning traveler should have bookmarked, because these ought to make it to your 2019 bucket list ASAP.

Gold List 2018/19

ARIJIJU, LAIKIPIA

This beautiful private home is partly sculpted into the rock-bed and its subtle entrance opens into a fragrant, greened space with generous Swahili curves and an air of monastic calm. Stone walls create vaulted walkways that lure you into cool shade towards a gym, spa and hammam, tennis court, dappled sun traps and Lamu daybeds. Alongside a gnarled African Olive tree, a slice of pool hangs over the untamed wild of the Sieku valley in the Borana Conservancy. Rates on request. www.arijiju.com

ROAD TRIP

MESMERIZING SOSSUSVLEI AND DEAD VLEI

Dead Vlei is a clay pan deep in the Namib Desert, sitting alongside the Sossusvlei sand dunes. Both are located inside the Namib Naukluft Park, a 35 minute flight or 5 hour drive from Windhoek. Aditya Mowgli Shah stopped there on his overland expedition through Southern Africa to discover its beauty for himself. Here are his five tips: