{"id":23503,"date":"2025-02-04T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/?p=23503"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:03:11","slug":"namibia-itinerary-luxury-lodges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/namibia-itinerary-luxury-lodges\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Tripping to Namibia&#8217;s Most Stunning Hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After years of dreaming about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/search?keyword=Namibia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Namibia<\/a>\u2019s raw and isolated beauty, I finally turned the dream into reality, convincing my partner, JT, to join me on an adventure brimming with extreme contrasts. Our Namibia itinerary promised it all: otherworldly landscapes, plenty of sunrise wake-ups and indulgent stays at luxurious lodges\u2014balanced by long, rugged drives on roads so bumpy that locals have coined them \u201cthe Namibian massage.\u201d Just my kind of trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Halpern turns her dream trip into reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"stoc_hidden_slugs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3303,3302,3752,3754,1806,1785,279,280,3755,3748,3747,3749,3018,3753,3233,2387,3751,3750],"class_list":["post-23503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diaries","tag-brack","tag-gmundner-lodge","tag-karas-region","tag-khomas-region","tag-live-like-its-the-weekend","tag-michelle-halpern","tag-namib-desert","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-itinerary","tag-pr224943","tag-pr224944","tag-pr241178","tag-safari","tag-windhoek","tag-zannier-hotels-omaanda","tag-zannier-hotels-sonop","tag-zannier-omaanda","tag-zannier-sonop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23503"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26890,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23503\/revisions\/26890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwicollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}