6-Day Etosha, Himba & Skeleton Coast Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Windhoek – Otjiwarongo

You will be collected from your accommodation within the Windhoek city limits or the airport by 07.15 am for a short pre-departure meeting. Heading North, we will make our first stop in the small town of Okahandja, where we will find Namibia’s largest wood carving market.
Onwards we travel to our overnight destination at Mt. Etjo campsite, which is located adjacent to the private Okonjati Game Reserve. After making camp and preparing lunch, we will drive three kilometres to the lodge where there will be time for a dip in the pool.
Time for our first game drive. We climb aboard open game viewing vehicles to explore the 36,000 hectares. The open landscape makes game viewing and photography a pleasure.
Dinner will be cooked over an open fire. After dinner, we head back to the lodge to watch some of the resident lions enjoy their evening meal.

*Single supplement not mandatory if traveller can be matched with another traveller of the same sex to share with.

Driving time: ~2-3 hours.

Main Destination:

Okonjati Game Reserve

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Okonjati GR

Meals & Drinks:

• Dinner (Breakfast & lunch not included)
• Drinks not included

Otjiwarongo - Okaukuejo

Departing after breakfast we head back to the main road to continue our journey north, en-route to Etosha National Park. We make a short stop for essential supplies in the small town of Otjwarongo before continuing on to Etosha’s main camp at Okaukuejo. We are introduced to the park with a short game drive between the main entrance gate, (Anderson Gate), and Okaukuejo Camp with a good chance to spot big game right from the very start. Etosha is huge, just over 22,000 square km and is home to 114 species of mammal, 350 species of bird, 110 species of reptile, uncountable numbers of insects and, somewhat bizarrely, one species of fish. After setting up our campsite we will head out into Etosha in search of big game. All visitors must be back in camp at sunset, but the ‘game show’ doesn’t stop when the sun goes down. Only a short walk from our campsite, Okaukuejo is justly famous for its very productive, flood-lit waterhole.

Driving time: ~3 hours.

Main Destination:

Etosha National Park

Best Time To Visit May to October (Animals come to water)

High Season July to November (The park gets crowded)

Best Weather May to August (Less hot during the day)

Wildlife in Etosha NP

ElephantAbundant

GiraffeCommon

ZebraAbundant

WildebeestAbundant

Black RhinoOccasional

LionOccasional

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HyenaOccasional

White RhinoVery Rare

LeopardVery Rare

CheetahVery Rare

BuffaloNone

HippoNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Etosha NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Etosha National Park

We have the whole day to explore Etosha, and we want to make the most of it. The park gates open at sunrise and after a quick cup of coffee and a snack we will aim to be on our way as the sun breaches the horizon. We head to the gate where we meet our local guide for today. We will explore Etosha with him and our guide on an open game viewer today. Early morning is usually a productive time for game viewing, and first thing in the morning is a good time to catch big cats returning from the hunt.

Etosha is a desert landscape and water is the most scarce natural resource. There are, however, numerous waterholes here, and our game-driving technique is to take in as many as possible.
Along the way, we will make a stop at a designated picnic area for a quick breakfast before continuing our game drive. There will also be time for a swim in the pool.
We wind our way back to Okaukuejo, and we aim to arrive back at our campsite just before sunset.

Main Destination:

Etosha National Park

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Etosha NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Okaukuejo – Palmwag

Time to leave Etosha and concentrate on some of Namibia’s other highlights. After an early breakfast and game drive we leave the park. Our first stop is a cultural visit to the Otjikandero Himba Village. The next leg of our journey today is truly spectacular, we turn to the west and head towards the mighty Etendeka Mountains and the Grootberg Pass. Etendeka translates as ‘flat top’ and indeed many of the surrounding mountains have flat table-tops. Palmwag is set out abreast of the Uniab River and under waving makalani palm trees which often provide a refuge for Namibia’s unique desert adapted elephants. Sometimes coming very close to our camp, and sometimes coming right in for a visit, the elephants have been known to drink water from the swimming pools. We arrive in the late afternoon and set up our camp in time to enjoy a sundowner and to hopefully see some of the resident elephant herds.

Driving time: ~4 hours.

Main Destination:

Palmwag Concession (Damaraland)

Best Time To Go May to October (Dry conditions; animals easier to see)

High Season July to November (Can get crowded)

Best Weather

Accommodation:

Budget camping

• Inside Palmwag Concession (Damaraland)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Palmwag - Cape Cross

Today we first head west to the Atlantic Ocean and then south, following the coastline to Cape Cross. We set off through more beautiful scenery and passing many weird and wonderful species of vegetation. In particular we will see Namibia’s National plant the amazing and endemic Welwitschia Mirabilis. Some specimens are known to be over 1,500 years old.
We enter the Skeleton Coast National Park and meet the chilly Atlantic Ocean. It is easy to see why this barren seaboard is called the Skeleton Coast. The wind, the waves and the huge fog banks all conspire to push ships onto the beach.
Exiting the park at the Ugab River crossing, we continue onto one of the largest seal colonies in the world. There are usually upwards of 100,000 seals basking on the rocks or swimming just off the beach.
After visiting the seal colony it is only a short drive to our overnight stop at Cape Cross. We aim to arrive in the late afternoon for a sunset walk on the beach.

Driving time: ~4 hours.

Main Destination:

Spitzkoppe (Damaraland)

Best Time To Visit May to October (Animals are easier to see)

High Season July to November (Some places can get quite busy)

Best Weather May to August (Less hot during the day)

Wildlife in Damaraland

ElephantOccasional

GiraffeOccasional

Black RhinoRare

LionRare

LeopardVery Rare

ZebraRare

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CheetahVery Rare

HyenaVery Rare

White RhinoNone

BuffaloNone

WildebeestNone

HippoNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Budget camping

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Cape Cross - Swakopmund

After breakfast and breaking camp, we head back to the coast and then south along the coast to the adventure capital of Namibia, Swakopmund.

Heading south on the coast road, our first stop is a more recent shipwreck. We complete the final leg of our journey into Swakopmund. Here you will join a group in a vehicle with a specialist guide who will drive you onto the sand dunes by the sea. Our guide will discuss all the options with you in advance and will be able to facilitate any bookings that we would like to make. You will be dropped off at your accommodation anywhere within the city limits of Swakopmund.

Driving time: ~4-5 hours

Note: We recommend that departure flights are not scheduled for today.

Main Destination:

Swakopmund (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinks not included

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.