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$4,561 to $4,676 pp (USD)
This tour is offered in NAD.
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Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Sossusvlei, Namib Desert
Sossusvlei, Namib Desert
After breakfast and meeting your guide for the safari, we will depart for Sossusvlei. We will drive through the Khomas Hochland and down the escarpment via one of the scenic mountain passes into the Namib Desert. This journey will take about 4 hours depending on the number of stops for photographs. Dinner and your accommodation will be at one of the best lodges in the area perfectly situated to explore the surrounding desert and its attractions.
Namib is the oldest desert and boasts the highest sand dunes in the world. This region is one of the most spectacular areas of Namibia and is always one of the highlights of any safari. The name Sossusvlei refers to the vlei or pan into which the seasonal Tsauchab River flows in years of exceptional rainfall. The neighboring Dead Vlei with the ancient dead Camel Thorn trees is one of the most photographic sites in the good early morning light. The Sesriem canyon is a narrow gorge about 1 km long and is well worth a visit.
- Main Destination:
- Sossusvlei (Sand Dunes)
- Accommodation:
- Namib Desert Lodge
Wildlife in Namib-Naukluft NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Sossusvlei, Namib Desert
Sossusvlei, Namib Desert
After an early breakfast and coffee, we will depart for a morning excursion to Sossusvlei and Dead Vlei. We will stop at the scenic Dune 45 along the way and spend a couple of hours at both Sossusvlei and Dead Vlei. Some of the dunes in the area are a few hundred meters high but the view from the top for those that dare is one you will never forget. After lunch and a well-earned siesta, we will have a sundowner nature drive before returning to the lodge in time for dinner.
- Main Destination:
- Sossusvlei (Sand Dunes)
- Accommodation:
- Namib Desert Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Swakopmund
Swakopmund
After a relaxing breakfast, we will depart for Swakopmund via the Namib Naukluft National Park. We will spend the next 2 nights at a guesthouse and have dinner at some of the top restaurants in Swakopmund. Please note that dinner tonight is not included and is at your own account.
Swakopmund is a very popular holiday destination for many Namibians and will probably be the only place that you will visit on the Namibian safari that has a real town feel to it. Wedged between the Namib Desert and the cold Atlantic Ocean, Swakopmund which is known for its very relaxed atmosphere, has something for everybody. There are plenty of great restaurants and bars, good shopping opportunities and fascinating architecture. For the adventurous, there’s quad biking, sand-boarding, skydiving, beach angling and scenic flights over the coastline and Sossusvlei to name a few. The nearby Walvis Bay, Namibia’s major harbour town is well known for the lagoon and its prolific birdlife.
- Main Destination:
- Swakopmund (City)
- Accommodation:
- Swakopmund Sands
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Swakopmund
Swakopmund
After breakfast, we will depart for a living desert adventure where we will encounter and learn more about the fascinating wildlife of the Namib Desert. We will look for geckos, scorpions, side-winder snakes, lizards and beetles as well as the incredible plant life that survives in this harsh environment.
Once we are back in Swakopmund, we'll enjoy lunch and then have the afternoon available to explore the town or perhaps finish the day with a quad-biking and dune-boarding adventure. Other optional activities that could be arranged include scenic flights over the coast and dunes.
- Main Destination:
- Swakopmund (City)
- Accommodation:
- Swakopmund Sands
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Twyfelfontein, Damaraland
Twyfelfontein, Damaraland
This morning after breakfast, we'll continue our safari northwards along the Skeleton Coast. After visiting a shipwreck, we'll turn inland towards Damaraland. We will drive past the Brandberg, Namibia’s highest mountain with the highest peak at 2573 meters. We will be at our lodge in time for a sun-downer drink while we enjoy the view over this beautiful landscape.
- Main Destination:
- Twyfelfontein (Rock Art)
- Accommodation:
- Twyfelfontein Country Lodge
Wildlife in Damaraland
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Twyfelfontein, Damaraland
Twyfelfontein, Damaraland
After breakfast, we will embark on a half day tracking adventure to try and find the desert adapted elephants. We will return to the lodge for lunch and spend the afternoon visiting the Twyfelfontein rock engravings (Namibia’s only World Heritage Site), burnt mountain and organ pipes rock formation and the Petrified Forest.
- Main Destination:
- Twyfelfontein (Rock Art)
- Accommodation:
- Twyfelfontein Country Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park
Today our journey continues to Etosha National Park where we will spend the next 4 nights. Etosha is one of Africa’s biggest and best national parks and one of the main tourist attractions in Namibia. It is 22 912sq km in size of which the Etosha Pan, a shallow depression that only holds water after good rainy seasons, is 5000sq km in size. Etosha is known for its spectacular game viewing and the waterholes attract huge numbers of game in the dry season when all the open water has dried up. During the rainy season, the park is transformed into a green oasis and this is the time you'll find young of various animal species in huge numbers. 114 species of mammals are found in the park and it is the best place in the world to see the black rhino. One of the highlights of the park is the flood-lit waterholes at the 3 main camps where game viewing continues long after the sun has set.
- Main Destination:
- Etosha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Etosha Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Etosha NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park
After breakfast, we will do morning and afternoon games drives and relax at the pool or camp waterhole between drives. The area and vegetation is very different to the southeastern and eastern part of the park and the Hartmann’s mountain zebra can be found here.
In this area and with a more undulating landscape, it makes for a very different wildlife experience. White dust and clay which makes up the Etosha Pan turns to a reddish brown soil during this time which may lead you to believe you have entered an entirely new park when you visit.
- Main Destination:
- Etosha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Etosha Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park
From here, we will make our way across the park in a full morning game drive to Mushara Bush Camp on the eastern boundary where we will spend the next 2 nights. We love this part of the park with its excellent game viewing and you are surely going to enjoy this as well.
- Main Destination:
- Etosha National Park
- Accommodation:
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Mushara Bush Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park
We will do morning and afternoon games drives and relax at the pool or camp waterhole between the drives.
In the vast arid space of Northern Namibia lies one of Southern Africa’s best-loved wildlife sanctuaries. The Etosha National Park offers excellent game viewing in one of Africa’s most accessible venues. Zebra and springbok are scattered across the endless horizon, while the many waterholes attract endangered black rhinoceros, lion, elephant and large numbers of antelope.
Etosha, meaning ‘place of dry water’, encloses a huge, flat calcrete depression (or pan) of about 5 000sq km. The ‘Pan’ provides a great, parched, silver-white backdrop of shimmering mirages to an area of semi-arid savannah grassland and thorn scrub. The pan itself contains water only after very good rains and sometimes for only a few days each year, but is enough to stimulate the growth of blue-green algae which lures thousands of flamingos.
- Main Destination:
- Etosha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mushara Bush Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Windhoek
Windhoek
After an early morning breakfast, we will depart for Windhoek where you will catch your connecting flight.
- Main Destination:
- Windhoek (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
