I was in Namibia to look at the Wilderness Safari hotel operation. Graded at three, four and five star levels their lodges provide an experience typical of the safari operations springing up all over Africa. Hotels range from self catering operations in the Kalahari through to the luxury lodges such as Kempinski's luxury Bilila Lodge in the Serengeti. With around 50 lodges in its portfolio in an arc across the continent, Wilderness operate on a different financial basis from most other operations and work with local communities on a shared equity basis. With some 50 lodges the use of an airline is important to move guests around - I flew between two lodges a six minute flight apart that would have taken an hour and a half by LandRover. Sefofane is Setswana for 'aeroplane'.

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