&Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge (Namibia) | PHENOMENAL luxury hotel (full tour)
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Join me on a full tour in 4K of &Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, one of Africa's most exclusive hotels. Located deep in the Namib, the world’s oldest desert, the ultra-luxe property features 11 beautifully appointed stone-and-glass pool suites, all enjoying magnificent views of the majestic landscape.
The video also includes an excursion with &Beyond to the Namibia's iconic red sand dunes at Sossusvlei and Deadvlei.
Read a review of this hotel on my travel blog: theluxurytravelexpert.com/202...
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
3:20 Arrival
5:17 Main pavilion
13:25 Gym & Spa
17:20 Suite
26:17 Breakfast
27:19 San rock art site
28:29 Lunch
30:01 Petrified dune
33:22 Dinner
35:08 Sossusvlei
41:25 Deadvlei
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All I can say is I'm very very proud to be Namibian, this is what my country offers guests
Its a beautiful country. Hugs from Brazil!!
@@peregrino9154 I wait tables. I was here in June. Priorities. Also, I feel proud supporting the staff at this place who did an outstanding job. Not that I have anything against rich people, since they provide jobs and income for everyone else, and poor people are mostly envious and greedy and offer nothing to society. Prove me wrong? Remember, I'm a poor person.
Those of us who are Africans we don't know how Africa is stunningly beautiful until we go to somewhere else. Africa is a piece of heaven and this gentle man professionally delivered it.
What an interesting hotel. I didn't know Hotels like these even existed.
check out al maha in UAE
@@Cassiopeia1992 al maha is amazing, and a good reference to dessert lodge, but you still feel very close to civilization and connected when there. You truly have to experience both to realise the surreal magical feeling of sossuvlei. It really is incomparable
After 25 years self-employed in the signage industry i was fortunate to make a career change and become a freelance german speaking tourguide as from 2017 and was thus blessed to have stayed at most lodges in Namibia, Botswana and Vic Falls. Sadly the cursed Plandemic put a sudden end to what were becoming the best years of my life. Thanks for bringing back some awesome memories of my travels through Namibia ; the land of wide open spaces
The beauty.... this is the side of Africa the world doesn't see. Namibia definitely has the most beautiful lodges, I'm proud🇳🇦
Breathtaking, what an experience! And the quality of your videos...Speechless as usual..I´m enjoying so much watching this, cozy @ home with my cup of tea. Thank you ☀
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are right. :-)
Most unexpectedly, I was moved to tears more than once as I watched this video.
There is a haunting timelessness to this kind of desolate beauty particularly when viewed against such a crystal clear sky.
I was reminded of Shelley’s poem :
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
exactly seeing beautiful landscapes like this puts life in perspective.
My wish is that you are able to experience this in person. And it doesn't even have to be this particular lodge, you can take a tent and go camp, but just get yourself to this dessert, and prepare a playlist with your best songs. There is some mythical surreal energy in the sand and stones under your feet. I was shooting a film for 2 months on the orange river, quite a bit south of sossuvlei, but its where this desert starts, and i had a couple of Odesza albums on repeat, what a spiritual awakening it was. Someone needs to scatter my ashes over the brandberg one day please
Literally one of your best ones yet. This place is beyond magical and you captured it and did it justice for us. 👏🏻
I love Africa anyway.
But, the beauty of this place is bringing tears to my eyes as I watch the video.
The people that look after the facilities are so lucky to live there...
My Namibia 🇳🇦 🇳🇦🇳🇦Truly a contrasting, beautiful country, simply breathtaking. I have never seen anyone capture it so well before 👌🏾🔥🔥🔥
Am I the only one getting teary at the beauty of the desert?
I was booked to do a solo guided trip to Namibia in 2/2020 and barely 12 hours before I was to leave my home in Tennessee my dear twin sister had a stroke. Thankfully she has recovered! At that time the &Beyond resort was closed for renovation. Maybe I can consider a new trip to Namibia now that Covid seems to be diminishing! I grew up in the desert of California and love the landscape but this eclipses anything in the United States!
Sorry for the interruption in your plan to come and visit our beautiful country Namibia🇳🇦. I trust God for a total recovery of your sister and good health for your entire family. You will make it again to Namibia 🇳🇦.
I welcome you in advance and please do enjoy your stay.
God Bless You.
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I love love this, I can just imagine being there drinking cold cocktails enjoying the sun and sand. It's incredible, I love how they blended the architecture and didn't try to change the environs by putting greenery. It's top on my bucket list now. Thank you so much for this.😍
The Resorts is in my country. It's one of the best with breathtaking views of the Namib Desert
this definitely has to be one of the most unique places I've ever seen.
The Desert; the Silence & the Beauty, Amazing 👌🙏
It is masterpieces like these that inspire me to work towards experiencing these magical places that you travel to. Thanks for that Doc & please never stop 😄
OMG I stayed here one night during my honeymoon in 2002, it’s amazing. Been renovated since. The 🌌 at night is incredible ✨
OMG! This has my name all over it. Pure civilized living in the middle of a desert! This is the peak of luxury! Walking on the peaks of the dunes. Just stunning !! Planet earth is so beautiful….
Oh yeah! i was waiting for this video.
thank you for the well wishes about my precious twin sister! God has done His miracle with her and she is fully recovered! Praising His name for that! As of now I am refocusing travel to Australia/New Zealand as it seems to be finally opening again but if not(particularly for New Zealand)I will refine my travel plans to Namibia!
How long until Hollywood comes knocking at this location?! So desolate, so brown....so magnificent this place. A Celebration of Magnificence in the middle of God's Nowhere! Thank you & Well Done.
Just wow .. the contrast of desert 🏜 and luxury accommodation. It is like a resort from any 6 ⭐️ island or beach hotel is transported to the location. I’m relaxed even just watching 🥂👏
Agreed...but the decor, as luxury as it is, is done with such a connection to the environment and is not over the top ..
Googled the price - 772 usd per night at the very cheapest. Not out-there expensive but still not a place I'd stay more than 1-2 nights then.
Interesting place for sure!
SOSSUSVLEI IS THE ULTIMATE PEACE BE STILL!! RESET YOUR MIND!! HEADQUARTERS! LOVE THE SPACIOUS BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED SUITES! EVERYTHING SO NATURAL & CLEAN! THE DUNES LOOK LIKE POWERED COCO ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! THE CAVE LOOKED LIKE INDIANA JONES MOVIE SET!! THE VIEWS ESQUISITE! THANK YOU!! YOUR EXTRAORDINARY SKILLS!! & PROFESSIONALISM IS APPRECIATED!! YOU TOTALLY DESERVE THE HALL OF FAME UTUBE AWARD!❤
I want to comment something but I'm totally speechless 😍❤I'm from South Africa Cape Town and to think this beautiful and out of this world natural beauty is so close to me
&Beyond company has best hotels and lodges. I was & Beyond employee in Tanzania and I can say they are good employers.
Those first minutes looks like something from another planet, absolutely gorgeous land and a beautiful hotel complex. Your videos are hands down the best on CZcams for capturing the beauty in everywhere that you visit. Great job 👍
Thank you so much 😊
Lovely landscape.
@@luxurytravelexpert Just wow. How much does a room cost per night? Do you have the contact information for the place? Like phone number or FB.
The most relaxing video on CZcams ever
Your best yet! At first I thought 'Why the desert?" "Why Namibia?" but you showed us the true beautyof the place. What a spectacle! Darn good architecture too.
Thank you 😊
Great video with amazing scenes! The only minus is the absence of any night scene for this beautiful destination :(
Lots of love to the Luxury Travel Expert. the best channel on CZcams
Omg!!! The Esthetic when it comes to the Interior and furnishings is oh so Gorgeous
Wow. This place has undergone one hec of a renovation. Looks even more luxurious than it did before
It seems like you were on another planet. I wish we had seen the stars at night.... Thank you for sharing your travels that we did not know existed, you have opened our eyes to another world of traveling on this incredible planet we live on.
Just when I thought your videos couldn't get any better.....WOW! Breathtaking and very relaxing to watch!
Oh, and the nights are to die for. The camp fires and storytelling... hope you experienced that too. One cannot be lonely when you can pick stars from the sky.
Absolutely amazing place on Earth. Reminds me of the Atacama desert.
Thank you LT for another wonderful video that introduced the Big Daddy and a luxury hotel in the middle of the desert in Namibia? OMG!You are the Modern Marco Polo. Thank you 1 million of gazillion times.
Big ups namibia love you all😍🇳🇦
"The silence of the desert is powerful." I experienced that at Wadi Rum in Jordan. You are quite correct.
The most spectacular was the dinner setting. Got chills. Magnificent
The sound of silence.... unforgettable experience....
This place looks like being in the movie Dune. Stunning!!!
As a Namibian I love this place.. and I love your video even more 😊
I set under those 900 years old trees 🤗
It’s a different type of feeling.
This movie was amazing. Thank you for showing the hotel and it looks like you are staying on Mars. Truly amazing!
Wow .
5:43 love the soft gentle piano music as you read the sign about leopards, snakes and scorpions in the area. this place has a gym - but why bother; seems you can get enough exercise just from hiking those sand dunes. 42:48 must feel so therapeutic on the feet
Ok, I'm definitely putting Namibia on my list of places to travel to. Amazing video!
You are mostly welcome. Enjoy your stay in advance 👏👏❤️❤️🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦
I was at this lodge in June. Tears in my eyes watching this. Best experience of my life and I don't deserve it.
So quiet and relaxing
Just how this man can endure such indignity, such misery, such depravity to warn us of going to such places as this is truly beyond me. That this man does us this tremendous service out of self sacrifice is to be commended! The selfless act of documenting the conditions that he must endure must be staggering on his mental and physical health. I can only hope that he will be able to continue to warn us about going to other places like this in the future. With a cold Bud high in hand, a toast to you Sir!!! Job well done! ( seriously, i love seeing where the other 2% spend their vacation time )
Your ability to capture the sparse beauty of the desert is front and foremost in this video. Sunsets would be the special time at this resort, for shifting blazing colours and the animals of course. The video is of your usual great quality and I enjoy them so much, but it's a shame this resort is not disability accessible.
This has been the most impressive hotel up to now! I love the quietness, the views, the possibility of seeing wild life and the stars and on top of all that, the dunes and clay pan with the thorn trees were simply mesmerizing! The fact of being in a hotel with excursions included makes it more interesting! Congrats for the beautiful videos & fantastic music.
My Dream destination 😍 ❤one day I will be there by God's grace 🙏🏽
The scenic images at the bottom of the dunes accompanied by the music was spectacular! 🤩
The beauty there is surreal.
Wow this is beautiful perfect for a honeymoon or anniversary or just a gateway far away from everyone
The location of this resort is gorgeous! I only wish you were able to capture the night sky. I’m sure the skies are full of stars at night!
Woot woot
What a unique place to stay and explore....
I am immensely grateful to this channel for allowing me to dream and dazzle beautiful landscapes. Thank you so much Luxury Travel.
No other video made me feel as peaceful as this one...loved the quiet spells in between. I live in a beautiful country 😊 best local music too
I stayed at desert camp, not too far down the road! The hike up Big Daddy as the sun rises is one of the most incredible things to do, love Namibia!
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This place is so beautiful. If given the opportunity to stay a few nights here, I'd take it and just enjoy the beautiful scenery. Bring my spiral notebook and plenty of pencils and pens in case any inspiration came to me.
I love Africa
Gosh! What an exquisite combination of luxury and wildernes experience! I will never have the money to explore this beautiful lodge and desert. Nevertheless, I am glad to have seen it through your eyes.🥰
That was beautiful. What an amazing place to visit. Can't wait to experience for myself.
It looks like you're on mars 😲 Mindblowing scenery!
How surreal is that!?! It's like a whole new planet!
Bet that sand was hard to walk in and got everywere...probably one of the most enjoyable videos since iv started watching you years ago
I’ve probably already commented before but this place is exactly where I’d like to be right now! Absolutely breathtaking ❤️
Beautiful colours of nature during sunset.
The sunset ride...I would have been screaming the whole way, I think. :D But an absolutely gorgeous place. Everything is just perfect.
~ iyi ve güzel varlıklarımızı , yani sevdiklerimizi ruhen hissetmek en derin duygularımızın en güçlüsüdür …. 🕊
A view from Mars. Wonderful.
Great adventure, beautiful resort... 👍 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 ... Hope for reuse water (for plants, etc.)... 👍👍👍
I have been there. Absolute magic.
I think it's the ultimate luxury.
You are so lucky!
We don't have the courage or strength to go there anymore, but thank you for showing us🤗
I wish I could experience the silence and atmosphere.
Of all the starry skies I've ever seen, Easter Island's is the best.
But I'm sure the night sky there is even better than that!
Zanniers Sonop Lodge near Mariental is just as breathtaking..i spent one day there,but what an expierence!!!..Namibia is the most beautifull place in the world..there is so much sublime beauty in the mountainous landscapes..the isolation in the deserts is majestic,..Im truelly blessed to be a Namibian..i cant wait to travel and expierence more of my country..there is so much to see..Please go check out Zanniers Sonop lodge..its Magical!!!!
I'm speechless,beautiful place to be but I'm proud of my country Namibia 👌😍
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Gosh that was extraordinary. I thought to myself, that doesn’t appeal to me at all, but it was stunning scenery. What a wonderful world we live in.
So Beautifull Didn't know Such a place Existed God's Beauty of Creation is well Made this Is Stunningly Beautifull!!! Desert Dirt is So Beautifull!
This look like a perfect lair for a James Bond baddy. Absolutely fantastic.
It's like a sand paradise.
amazing location; have officially been in Namibia long ago (1994) to support democracy then! Do hope to return soon, also to this lovely area
Feels like I’m living in his videos, love it.
I have to say that this hotel had it all. From an interior in a natural tone that is Scandinavian-inspired mixed with retro-inspired furniture and interior design. To how the hotel's building is constructed in one with nature, in a furturical and natural way. Where you have a concept in one with nature, in that they use a lot of large windows and doors that can be opened completely and mirrors. I like that the hotel has gone on to really think about the environment when it comes to recycling water and wind. Likewise, they have taken their concept further by letting guests get to know the surroundings and its history. The food they served looked fantastic. Very nicely presented and in one with the hotel's vibe. In this video you have created a beautiful image of the wonderful, futuristic and golden nature and not least the hotel. With Deadvlei at the end of the video, was a beautiful ending to the video with its unique nature and history.
Süper güzel manzaralar👍
The Namibia Live Stream in the Namib Desert Gondwana Collection at the waterhole brought me here. I wanna go to Namibia sooo bad and stay in one of those lodge and watch the sunrise and sunset in person!!
Thank you for allowing us to travel spiritually. Excellent quality of videos.
It is a really amazing experience. I never think about a hotel in such a desert.
I love this vídeo Thanks CZcams.
Just come to Namibia 🇳🇦 the beauty awaits you
Очень.....на любителя.Не понимаю пустыню,но рукотворные оазисы -впечатляют.
What a beautiful presentation. After seeing this video, I wondered how one would enjoy the comforts of a luxury resort in the silence of rocks & sand dunes !
I have it in the top 3 of my list since 2-3 years. It is a place, even when totally different, that can compete even with Maldives, like Waldorf Astoria.
I feel the place is amazing, true luxury in this neverland but it is magical only because of your video and beyond surreal, music which literally teleports one to this dry and arid desert where sands stand still like mountains but moves like water (in the shots when u descend the dunes).
It would be a lonely experience to actually experience it in real without the music for me. Silence screams. Thank you for mental escape a beautiful journey.
Thank you for your lovely comment 😍
Same for me
Beautiful Namibia 🇳🇦. My Namibia 🇳🇦. My Country 🇳🇦. My Pride!
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Namibia one of a kind for sure...
Thank you for sharing this video. I am stunned by the beauty.
I do watch all of your videos but you must forgive me for not always commenting. I am simply stunned bu the painful beauty of that place. I always loved the look of deserts but this one was spectacular.
Sometimes I fast forward. Not this time. Magnificent...