Luxury Safari Options Expand Across East and Southern Africa
The Vestige Collection is opening a new ultra-luxury safari lodge in Namibia's Khaudum National Park in 2027. The property emphasizes sustainable practices, local community involvement, and exclusive wildlife experiences in a remote conservation area.
Why it matters
This development highlights the growing trend of high-end, eco-conscious tourism in under-visited African regions, balancing luxury hospitality with conservation efforts.
This season’s luxury safari news spans a reopened Singita camp, a new Vestige lodge in Namibia and Banyan Group’s first safari property in Tanzania.
Reservations are open for Vestige Xaudum , an ultra-luxury six-suite lodge that will welcome its first guests on March 15, 2027, inside Namibia’s Khaudum National Park. It marks Vestige Collection ‘s first property outside Spain and the first of four lodges planned for a new Vestige Namibia circuit.
Set on a Kalahari sand dune above a dry riverbed, the lodge is the only one operating inside Khaudum, a park that draws fewer than 3,000 visitors a year. The park covers roughly 1,467 square miles as part of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, with wildlife moving freely between Khaudum and Botswana. Migratory elephant herds, African wild dogs, lions, leopards, cheetahs, roan antelope and more than 300 bird species are found in the park.
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