10. Onguma Plains, The Fort on Fisher's Pan, Etosha, Namibia (rustic hotel)

Northern Namibia is Africa's Next Great Safari Frontier, partly due its wildlife, but also because of its wealth of high-quality luxury lodges, like this camp on a private 50,000-acre game reserve, five minutes from Etosha National Park. Carved antique doors, billowy curtains, and reflecting pools, with two of each guest room's walls made of canvas and can be opened to reveal the plains like an Impressionist painting.

(China Daily via Agencies October 20, 2008)