Namibia Adventure Safari
Day 1 and 2 - Sossusvlei, Namibia
Your guide will meet you at the Windhoek International Airport from where you drive south-west to the Namib Naukluft area via the spectacular Spreetshoogte Pass. En route, we will enjoy a picnic lunch overlooking the endless the Namib Desert. The journey is about 300km of excellent gravel road.
Many visitors to Namibia say that no part of the desert is visually more stunning than Sossusvlei. This major attraction of the Namib Naukluft Park is renowned for its gigantic dunes. These star-shaped mountains of sand, the highest of which is estimated to be about 325m, are a sought-after topic for photographers.
We will also visit the Sesriem Canyon, which is one of the most amazing features of the Namib. Here the Tsauchab River has carved a gorge – up to 30 meters deep – into the gravels deposited some 15 to 18 million years ago, during a wetter phase in the history of the Namib. Sesriem derives its name from the time when early pioneers tied six lengths of rawhide thongs together to draw water from the pools.
Accommodation: Namib Naukluft Lodge
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, picnic lunch and dinner
Day 3 - Swakopmund and Walvis Bay
After breakfast, you drive north-west to the coastal town of Swakopmund. As you travel towards the Atlantic Coast you will see the scenery change from sand dunes to dark craggy canyons and then to flat gravel plains. You will also visit the moon landscape, which reveals the famed Welwitschia plants that grow on seemingly lifeless gravel plains.
Accommodation: Hansa Hotel, Swakopmund
Meal arrangements: Breakfast and picnic lunch
Day 4 - Day trip to Fish River Canyon and Lüderitz
Fly from Swakopmund via Sossusvlei with its magnificent dune formations to the Fish river Canyon, the second largest canyon in the world. You will stop in Lüderitz and visit the ghost town Kolmanskop, where diamond diggers used to live in splendour. After a light meal, fly along Namibia’s forbidden coast back to Swakopmund.
Accommodation: Hansa Hotel, Swakopmund
Meal arrangements: Breakfast and picnic lunch
Day 5 - Swakopmund and Walvis Bay
Explore Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and the surrounding area with your guide. The Walvis Bay Lagoon is a RAMSAR site and home to thousands of flamingos and numerous other species that gather at these rich feeding grounds. Altogether some 80 000 wading birds can be seen on the lagoon. Extra optional activities include dolphin cruises, scenic flights over the Skeleton Coast, quad biking, sky-diving and fishing.
Accommodation: Hansa Hotel, Swakopmund
Meal arrangements: Breakfast
Day 6 and 7 - Damaraland
The drive north to Damaraland goes along the Skeleton Coast via Cape Cross, which is one of the largest seal colonies in the world. Continuing the journey up the coast, you cross the windswept gravel plains bordered by the icy Atlantic Ocean on one side, and the endless desert on the other.
Hidden in a valley, on the northern slopes of the Huab River in central Damaraland, where blankets of sea mist drift in from the ocean, is a safari camp that will touch your senses as never before. Accommodation consists of permanent tents with en-suite facilities and verandahs from which to enjoy the spectacular scenery.
This camp is a rare venture that integrates the local community, environment and wildlife, offering a true wilderness experience in magnificent surroundings.
Explore the surrounding area. From your base you will have easy access to the rugged mountains, dry river valleys and huge open plains where black rhino and the desert-adapted elephant may be found. Activities here centre around game drives in open four-wheel drive vehicles from which you are likely to see ostrich, kudu, giraffe, gemsbok, springbok and mountain zebra.
Accommodation: Damaraland Camp
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, picnic lunch and dinner
Day 8 - Etosha National Park, Okaukuejo
After breakfast you depart for Etosha National Park via Twyfelfontein, which is home to one of the most extensive rock art galleries in Africa. Some of these engravings date back to the Early Stone Age.
You also visit the Organ Pipes, which are exposed in a gorge, roughly 100m long and reach a maximum height of 5m. They were formed by the intrusion of a dolerite sheet into the shale's of the Karoo Sequence some 120 million years ago.
Before leaving Damaraland you will visit the Petrified Forest. The "forest" lies on a small sandstone rise and covers an area of about 65 ha in the Aba Huab River valley. The trees occur in sandstone of the Ecca Group, a subdivision of the Karoo Sequence, and are about 260 million years old.
You will travel north and arrive at the enormous 22,000sq km Etosha National Park in the late afternoon. Herds of Burchell's zebra, springbok and numerous other antelope species provide continual hunting opportunities for the lion prides. Etosha is famous for its elephants and also boasts healthy populations of black rhino, damara dik-dik and black-faced impala.
Characterised by its thatched rondavels (hut-shaped bungalows), Okaukuejo is Etosha’s oldest and most popular rest camp. Activities include game drives to several excellent waterholes nearby. Okaukuejo is the main administrative centre and headquarters of the Etosha Ecological Institute, where research and nature conservation management in Etosha are conducted.
Accommodation: Etosha, Okaukuejo rest camp
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, picnic lunch and dinner
Day 9 and 10 - Namutoni, Etosha National Park
Today we head through the park to Namutoni Rest Camp, the most easterly camp in the park. Namutoni was developed around a German fort built in 1902 and now houses a museum and accommodation units of various sizes.
The lodge overlooks a floodlit waterhole and it has a game-viewing hut and lookout tower. Several waterholes in the area make for excellent game drives.
Accommodation: Etosha, Namutoni Rest Camp
Meal arrangements: Full board
Day 11 and 12 - Okonjima, Waterberg
Okonjima is a family-run guest lodge and the home of the Africat Foundation where you can experience leopard and cheetah during their feeding times and join highly informative Bushman and Bantu trails.
A spacious hide, within walking distance of the luxury rooms, is excellent for bird watching. Over 300 species, including most of Namibia's endemics, have been identified. For an after dinner treat, honey badgers, porcupine and other nocturnal creatures around the hide are sure to entertain you, as they too enjoy their dinner.
At Okonjima you will see the Africat Foundation at work, learn more about leopard and cheetah, and have excellent photographic opportunities.
Accommodation: Okonjima Guest Lodge
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 13 - Windhoek
After brunch we depart for Windhoek to be in time for your flight. En route we visit the wood carving market at Okahandja.
Meal arrangements: Brunch
*Please note that this outline itinerary serves as guide, helping you to plan your holiday. Our helpful consultants will be happy to assist you planning your own and personal tailor-made itinerary which addresses your specific interests and needs.
Your guide will meet you at the Windhoek International Airport from where you drive south-west to the Namib Naukluft area via the spectacular Spreetshoogte Pass. En route, we will enjoy a picnic lunch overlooking the endless the Namib Desert. The journey is about 300km of excellent gravel road.
Many visitors to Namibia say that no part of the desert is visually more stunning than Sossusvlei. This major attraction of the Namib Naukluft Park is renowned for its gigantic dunes. These star-shaped mountains of sand, the highest of which is estimated to be about 325m, are a sought-after topic for photographers.
We will also visit the Sesriem Canyon, which is one of the most amazing features of the Namib. Here the Tsauchab River has carved a gorge – up to 30 meters deep – into the gravels deposited some 15 to 18 million years ago, during a wetter phase in the history of the Namib. Sesriem derives its name from the time when early pioneers tied six lengths of rawhide thongs together to draw water from the pools.
Accommodation: Namib Naukluft Lodge
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, picnic lunch and dinner
Day 3 - Swakopmund and Walvis Bay
After breakfast, you drive north-west to the coastal town of Swakopmund. As you travel towards the Atlantic Coast you will see the scenery change from sand dunes to dark craggy canyons and then to flat gravel plains. You will also visit the moon landscape, which reveals the famed Welwitschia plants that grow on seemingly lifeless gravel plains.
Accommodation: Hansa Hotel, Swakopmund
Meal arrangements: Breakfast and picnic lunch
Day 4 - Day trip to Fish River Canyon and Lüderitz
Fly from Swakopmund via Sossusvlei with its magnificent dune formations to the Fish river Canyon, the second largest canyon in the world. You will stop in Lüderitz and visit the ghost town Kolmanskop, where diamond diggers used to live in splendour. After a light meal, fly along Namibia’s forbidden coast back to Swakopmund.
Accommodation: Hansa Hotel, Swakopmund
Meal arrangements: Breakfast and picnic lunch
Day 5 - Swakopmund and Walvis Bay
Explore Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and the surrounding area with your guide. The Walvis Bay Lagoon is a RAMSAR site and home to thousands of flamingos and numerous other species that gather at these rich feeding grounds. Altogether some 80 000 wading birds can be seen on the lagoon. Extra optional activities include dolphin cruises, scenic flights over the Skeleton Coast, quad biking, sky-diving and fishing.
Accommodation: Hansa Hotel, Swakopmund
Meal arrangements: Breakfast
Day 6 and 7 - Damaraland
The drive north to Damaraland goes along the Skeleton Coast via Cape Cross, which is one of the largest seal colonies in the world. Continuing the journey up the coast, you cross the windswept gravel plains bordered by the icy Atlantic Ocean on one side, and the endless desert on the other.
Hidden in a valley, on the northern slopes of the Huab River in central Damaraland, where blankets of sea mist drift in from the ocean, is a safari camp that will touch your senses as never before. Accommodation consists of permanent tents with en-suite facilities and verandahs from which to enjoy the spectacular scenery.
This camp is a rare venture that integrates the local community, environment and wildlife, offering a true wilderness experience in magnificent surroundings.
Explore the surrounding area. From your base you will have easy access to the rugged mountains, dry river valleys and huge open plains where black rhino and the desert-adapted elephant may be found. Activities here centre around game drives in open four-wheel drive vehicles from which you are likely to see ostrich, kudu, giraffe, gemsbok, springbok and mountain zebra.
Accommodation: Damaraland Camp
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, picnic lunch and dinner
Day 8 - Etosha National Park, Okaukuejo
After breakfast you depart for Etosha National Park via Twyfelfontein, which is home to one of the most extensive rock art galleries in Africa. Some of these engravings date back to the Early Stone Age.
You also visit the Organ Pipes, which are exposed in a gorge, roughly 100m long and reach a maximum height of 5m. They were formed by the intrusion of a dolerite sheet into the shale's of the Karoo Sequence some 120 million years ago.
Before leaving Damaraland you will visit the Petrified Forest. The "forest" lies on a small sandstone rise and covers an area of about 65 ha in the Aba Huab River valley. The trees occur in sandstone of the Ecca Group, a subdivision of the Karoo Sequence, and are about 260 million years old.
You will travel north and arrive at the enormous 22,000sq km Etosha National Park in the late afternoon. Herds of Burchell's zebra, springbok and numerous other antelope species provide continual hunting opportunities for the lion prides. Etosha is famous for its elephants and also boasts healthy populations of black rhino, damara dik-dik and black-faced impala.
Characterised by its thatched rondavels (hut-shaped bungalows), Okaukuejo is Etosha’s oldest and most popular rest camp. Activities include game drives to several excellent waterholes nearby. Okaukuejo is the main administrative centre and headquarters of the Etosha Ecological Institute, where research and nature conservation management in Etosha are conducted.
Accommodation: Etosha, Okaukuejo rest camp
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, picnic lunch and dinner
Day 9 and 10 - Namutoni, Etosha National Park
Today we head through the park to Namutoni Rest Camp, the most easterly camp in the park. Namutoni was developed around a German fort built in 1902 and now houses a museum and accommodation units of various sizes.
The lodge overlooks a floodlit waterhole and it has a game-viewing hut and lookout tower. Several waterholes in the area make for excellent game drives.
Accommodation: Etosha, Namutoni Rest Camp
Meal arrangements: Full board
Day 11 and 12 - Okonjima, Waterberg
Okonjima is a family-run guest lodge and the home of the Africat Foundation where you can experience leopard and cheetah during their feeding times and join highly informative Bushman and Bantu trails.
A spacious hide, within walking distance of the luxury rooms, is excellent for bird watching. Over 300 species, including most of Namibia's endemics, have been identified. For an after dinner treat, honey badgers, porcupine and other nocturnal creatures around the hide are sure to entertain you, as they too enjoy their dinner.
At Okonjima you will see the Africat Foundation at work, learn more about leopard and cheetah, and have excellent photographic opportunities.
Accommodation: Okonjima Guest Lodge
Meal arrangements: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 13 - Windhoek
After brunch we depart for Windhoek to be in time for your flight. En route we visit the wood carving market at Okahandja.
Meal arrangements: Brunch
*Please note that this outline itinerary serves as guide, helping you to plan your holiday. Our helpful consultants will be happy to assist you planning your own and personal tailor-made itinerary which addresses your specific interests and needs.
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