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Bedrooms are widely separated to enhance the tranquility but also to allow the game to walk between them easily. Click to see the interior of a bedroom
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"en-suite shower rooms, flushing w.c.'s and double wash basins with a full range of toiletries"
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The landscape-friendly construction means no mains drainage (even if there was any here in the kaokoveldt) or mains power. Solar electrics and water heating work well. However its use means that all the electrical power (except in the main administration building, which has its own generator) is at 12 volts. This means no hair dryers, no kettles, no TVs and no telephones.
Even the admin generator only works at set times mainly to update bookings and power the ground to air radio (most guest arrive by light plane - see our article on the Wilderness Airline, Sefofane).
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Bathrooms are sophisticated, with showers not baths. Water is solar heated. Click for another view
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Reading lights and task light on the desk are all 12 volt. Click to see anther part of the bedroom
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Bedrooms are sophisticated and compare well with standard European bedrooms. They have en-suite shower rooms, flushing w.c.'s and double wash basins with a full range of toiletries. They even have a TCMF despite the lack of a kettle. As there is no phone you have to walk back down the path to reception to get a thermos of boiling water - might as well have coffee there as trek back again...
The presence of a bucket in the shower is a puzzle until you realise that water is so scarce that it is to catch the cold water running before the hot starts, to be used for flushing the toilet. Shower water goes into a soak away to be reused in the toilet cistern. Toilet effluent goes ...somewhere green....
There are lights in the wardrobe, bedhead lights, a fan in the ceiling and generally everything one would normally expect except that it all runs at 12 volts, and if you keep it going too long after dark or keep your balcony lights on at night the battery will quickly drain down.
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Damaraland Lodge
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