August 10, 2006
Windhoek: The Burning Shore lodge, which accommodated Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt during their recent Namibian visit, may be put on auction in South Africa this month.
The Namibian newspaper reported that advertisements for the auction of the Burning Shore had appeared in Cape Town newspapers at the weekend. The auction is scheduled to be held on August 30 in the ballroom of the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, according to the advertisement.
The advertisements describe the Burning Shore lodge, situated halfway between Namibia's Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, as "the most celebrated boutique hotel in the world recently vacated by Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie"
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"Some guests . . . paid R2-million to use the prime property for 80 days," the advertisement says. Interested buyers are called upon to make their bid "to own it for a lifetime".
The Burning Shore is flanked by the desert and the sea. It is advertised as an "architectural masterpiece with designer finishes, jacuzzi, white sands with frontline sea and private beach views and a deck area for al fresco dining".
Jolie and Pitt spent months at the hotel earlier this year, away from the Hollywood paparazzi frenzy, so that Jolie could give birth to the couple's first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel, in Namibia at the end of May. - Independent Foreign Service
  
 
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