Botswana & Namibia
Today, Botswana and Namibia are still two of Africa's hidden secrets; the oldest rust-red desert in the world, a popularly imagined wilderness of teeming wildlife preternaturally blue skies and silent spaces. But this is barely half the picture, for these days Botswana and Namibia are two of Africa's model nations, no longer frontier territories but modern, mineral rich economies at the vanguard of the continent's future.