The most beautiful country most South Africans have never visited. Two hours from Johannesburg, no visa, your rands work, and no time difference — yet almost nothing about it looks like home.

Between Windhoek, Swakopmund and Walvis Bay you get apricot dunes running into a cold Atlantic, quad biking, kayaking with seals, Sandwich Harbour, and Dune 7. Transport and a tour leader throughout; this is a guided group tour, not a self-drive.