Michelangelo Magazine 2021
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It establishes Botswana’s border with Namibia and forms the upper boundary of the game-rich Chobe National Park. What is more exhilarating than not knowing what’s around the next bush or riverbend when on a boat cruise? And the heart- stopping moment when the first elephant appears on the riverbank? Luxury camping safari Etosha Safari Camping2Go Etosha Safari Camping2Go is an effortless eco-camping experience. Located outside of Etosha National Park, the tents are far enough from the park bustle, yet close enough to an array of the Etosha Safari Collection’s facilities - swimming pools, restaurants and bars. Your tented escape awaits when solitude calls. GONDWANA The power of kindness Gondwana Care Trust The annual Back-To-School Christmas Bag Project by the Gondwana Care Trust provides reusable goodie bags to children in need across Namibia filled with stationary, treats and sustainable food stuffs. Bags can be purchased all year at any Gondwana lodges (N$200 each) as well as online at The Narrative Namibia. No act of kindness is too small. Dazzling zebra migration Zambezi floodplains The longest existing animal migration takes place in the north of Namibia when a dazzle of about 2,500 Burchell’s zebras makes its way from Chobe to Nyae Nyae Pans. During two months they cover a vast distance of 250 kilometres through the Zambezi floodplains. They then spend around 6 months on the Namibian side. On the last thread of hope Wild horses One of the world’s last remaining herds of wild horses nearby Aus is on the brink of extinction. Despite being recognised as a national heritage, the wild horse population of Namibia is threatened by hyenas and the past drought. Not a single foal has survived in the past 5 years, making the youngest horse 7 years old. SEPTEMBER 2021 6 Editor's Note Tales – weird and wonderful… hunters – resulting in an abrupt over-supply of very, very juvenile, and particularly reluctant new ‘hunters’ in diapers.) Over the years, we have learned that a rather large part of consumer response to wine and spirits are in uenced by the story behind the Fast forwarding a few thousand years, and it is amazing to see people’s products. Apart from the branding, taste and texture that wine and a nity to the tales accompanying the nest wines and spirits. Nary a spirits o er to consumers, consumers associate and oftentimes nd tasting that we have attended or organised over the past 17 years in empathy with the tales and legends that accompany their favourite many countries, have been devoid of stories and tales which made the drinks. products more alluring, interesting and attractive. We suppose this a nity – driven and supported by tales and legends “…vines planted by Da Gama whilst trying to x his ships’ GPS…” accompanying the wines and spirits – are not unique to the drinks industry. Many companies – o ering goods and services other Knowing that wines in such-and-such a bottle originates from vines than drinks, have also built large portions of their brand a nity on planted by Da Gama whilst trying to x his ships’ GPS, makes for people and their locations and history. Some companies revere the signi cantly more brand and product a nity, than a suspicion that pioneers and visionaries who started the companies, the di culties the vines from which the strange liquid was presumably pressed, and tribulations and setbacks they had weathered, and the tenacity originated mostly from genetically modi ed round things found in of those people - that ultimately made the companies survive and Wuhan. ourish. In pondering this lovely human peculiarity, and seeing the magic “…consumers as a whole prefer German engineering to of tales being told when observing consumer behaviour with glass Gaboonish o erings, and Scottish tipple to Brakpan Brew…” in hand, I realised (again) that I often remember and appreciate my friends when reminiscing about their stories and tales. The rich, Others have built much of their brand a nity on their geographical wonderful, hilarious and colourful stories from people like Dawie locations. Ask the Scots, Mexicans, French, Irish, Japanese, Namibians Scholtz, Frank van Zyl, Werner Schrenk, Carol Rechter, Janet Kapenda, and South Africans whose love for the place that the Good Lord Claudia Opperman, Madri Van Wyk, Ben Potgieter, Anton Beukes, Barry had housed them and their kin, is celebrated in their brands, De Vries, Dirk Harris, Rene Van Der Hoven, Bernard Schau er, Tommy products and quality of service. (Windhoek Lager, Groot Constantia, Larkan, Pierre Le Roux, Bernhard Gutman, Lorna Mbwale, Henry Hermanuspietersfontein, …) Without too much intellectual Fernandes - and way too many more to mention - have certainly engagement, it can safely be said that consumers as a whole prefer helped pass the odd unrelenting hour with a giggle and a grin. German engineering to Gaboonish o erings, and Scottish tipple to Brakpan Brew. At the conclusion of the 25th Michelangelo competition, we remember and salute all those magni cent people who touched so “…caves were the only shelter with a roof, and dinosaur was many lives with their passion, humour, tenacity, attention to detail, staple food.” wonderful wines, …. and the dogged determination to make this world a better place. This beautiful human endeavour – to carry over and preserve tales and legends from one generation to the next – around camp res, in Godspeed, my friends. literature and on products, is as alive and evident today, as it was when furniture was mostly rocks, caves were the only shelter with a roof, and The Michelangelo Team dinosaur was staple food. (Unless the damn thing outmanoeuvred the 7 SEPTEMBER 2021 16 Thoughts become things. FREE COPY IN FLIGHT. IN ROOM. IN AFRICA SEPTEMBER 2021 10Jewel in the desert 38 Follow the light Few things in life sound more alluring and intriguing than a Photographer Solly Levi has moved into the realm of fi ne art forbidden realm to which very few people had access… photography, and his photographic tours to Namibia are legendary 16Durbanville Wine Route 44 Windhoek Activity Centre 1 SEPTEMBER 2021 It’s on your doorstep. An easy 25 minute ride from the city centre, Windhoek is the heart of Namibia, and there’s just so much to do ON THE COVER: and a wealth of wineries, eateries and more awaits you there…if you know where, how, why... Follow the light 20Joe’s Beerhouse 48 Solomon Omogboye: Joe’s like a good old friend. Reliably there, always fu n, always superb Illustrative of our identity, captured beauty, depth of emotions and, Photographer Solly Levi has moved into value… ultimately, gateway to the soul the realm of fi ne art photography, and 24 The Gondwana 7 54 New Life for a Namibian Treasure his photographic tours to Namibia are Seven locations, seven marathons, seven days A realm of fauna and flora, Midgard Country Estate off ers visitors the legendary 28Breathe…breathe… chance to delight in the surrounding natural wonders, whilst learning We live in a very strange time.