WALK WITH BUSHMEN IN BOTSWANA
JACK’S CAMP
Back in the 1960s, a fourth-generation hunter-explorer, Jack Bousfield, built a rough camp for friends and family near the Kalahari Desert’s 10,000-square-mile Makgadikgadi salt pans—the remains of an ancient lake where Homo sapiens began to evolve. After his death in a 1992 plane crash, his son Ralph built a lodge in his name—all 1940s safari-style glamour amid mesmerizing badlands, and the cognoscenti have flocked to it for decades. It reopened last winter in an opulent and 100 percent solar-powered iteration: nine 2,900-square-foot sleeping tents, Persian rugs, antiques, and, in protective cases, the Bousfields’ collection of Kalahari artifacts (designated an official natural history museum in Botswana). Walkabout with Zu/’hoasi Bushmen, quadbike on the pans, go riding, track the black-maned Kalahari lion. Then contemplate from…