Kalahari Desert Vacation resort
Posted September 8, 2008 
Comments(0) A new gem waiting to be discovered in the Kalahari
On the edge of the mysterious desert wilderness in the Kalahari that was once packed with fortune hunters searching for diamonds a new gem in the tourism industry has emerged. The Diamond Route is one of the many manifestations of a well known family’s long history of passion and action towards environmental conservation issues and tourism.
The original Diamond Birding Route was an initiative to link nine properties owned by two prominent South African families through a tourism route focussed on the niche birding market. The project recruited people from the local communities to provide them with specialist bird guide training. With varying degrees of success, it brought publicity and visitors to each of the sites. It became apparent that the diverse assets of these properties went well beyond birding. And so evolved the Diamond Route, freed of the limiting constraints of a birding focus and geared to the full range of possibilities from culture and history to all aspects of the natural environment. Read more »
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