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Namibia

Namibia in Style / Namibia in Focus / Andersson's Safari / Cape to Namibia Self-Drive
Adventure Namibia Self-Drive / Luxury Camping / Serviced Camping / Budget Camping

Namibia in Focus

An escorted tour is designed to visit some of the further reaches of Damaraland, where you would not venture with a rental car, as well as the Namib Desert, Sossusvlei, Swakopmund and Etosha.

Meals Mostly Full Board - 12 dinners, 11 lunches
Accommodation Mostly Premier accommodation with 2 nights in comfortable rest camps and guest farms
Departure Dates Once a month, Sunday from Windhoek
Transport Specially modified VW microbus or 4x4 landrover
Price Includes Meals and accommodation as shown in text, transport, services of a guide, all park and entrance fees
Price Excludes International flights, visas, items of a personal nature, meals not specified
Minimum Number 4
Climate Desert climate with hot summers and warm winters, summer afternoon rains from December to March
Best time to go From April to October
Health Requirements Anti-Malarial precautions essential north of Windhoek
Parties of 4 or more can choose their own departure date, subject to availability

Day 1 : Arrive Windhoek, 1 night, Hilltop House, Dinner, Bed & Breakfast
On arrival at Windhoek Airport you proceed to the Arrivals hall. Here you are met by our guide for the start of your Namibian tour. You are transferred to the delightful Hilltop House where you have time to relax and rest prior to a short walking tour of Windhoek. This evening you get to know your guide over dinner

Day 2 : 2 nights, Kulala Desert Lodge, Namib Desert, Full Board
Today the adventure begins! Our guide will collect you from Hilltop House and you will set off across an extraordinary range of desert habitats and "moonscapes" on your way to the famous dunes at Sossusvlei for your two night stay at the delightful Kulala Desert Lodge. Kulala Desert Lodge is a small and intimate lodge with only 13 rooms and particularly fine cuisine. The lodge is 30km south of Sesriem but their private entrance to the Park is the closest to Sossusvlei, with some of the highest sand dunes in the world, and is used for their 4x4 guided dune excursions. Nature walks and sundowner drives are also offered, with horse riding and hot-air ballooning optional extras. Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert rivals a visit to Etosha as the highlight of a Namibian holiday.

Day 3 : Sossusvlei Pan and Sesriem Canyon, Full Board
You rise with the sun to see one of the most exhilarating sights in Namibia - the towering dunes of Sossusvlei, some of the largest in the world, rising more than 1000 feet above the desert. Many of our visitors lose their hearts to Namibia after seeing Sossusvlei. This is paradise for the photographer, as the shadows create a magnificent contrast of colours. Marvel at the gemsbok and other animals that manage to survive in these dry conditions. The energetic can climb one of the dunes for a panorama of the endless dune landscape and the changing play of light.

Day 4 : 2 nights, Burning Shore Lodge, Swakopmund, Dinner, Bed & Breakfast & Picnic Lunch
You leave the Namib Naukluft after breakfast and travel to the German colonial resort of Swakopmund. The drive over the gravel plains of the northern Namib Desert is another long drive. But as you travel across the stark and hauntingly beautiful desert plains you will note that, although seemingly barren, this area is home to a surprising number of animals, including, ostrich, oryx and springbok. The sea breezes of Swakopmund make a refreshing change in the early afternoon, and on your way into town you can briefly tour the Bay, with its squawking flocks of flamingos and seabirds.

Day 5 : Tour of Moon Valley or Walvis Lagoon
Today, depending on your interests, you can visit Sandwich Bay inhabited by Flamingos and waders, or visit the Welwitschia "forest" and the surreal landscape of the 'Moon Mountains', an area of deep chasms and interesting geological features. Alternatively Swakopmund provides a welcome resting place where you can meander along the beach, enjoy superb seafood or marvel at the High German architecture.

Day 6 : 1 night, Twyffelfontein Lodge, Damaraland, Full Board
Journey up the coast, via Africa's largest seal colony at Cape Cross, seeing a little of the infamous Skeleton Coast en route. Imagine the horror of early explorers whose shipwrecks lie strewn along the shore, doomed by treacherous fogs and currents. Then cut inland towards the Burnt Mountain, Twyffelfontein and the Petrified Forest. Stay overnight at Twyffelfontein Lodge which, as its name suggests, is close to the fascinating Twyffelfontein rock engravings.

Day 7 : 2 nights, Palmwag Lodge, Damaraland, Full Board
Head further north into Damaraland, to the Palmwag Lodge for your two night stay and game walk in the afternoon. Damaraland is one of our favourite areas of Namibia - its innate beauty intensified by the solitude and the sense of freedom it engenders. This rugged mountain wilderness to the west of Etosha offers great photographic opportunities with its imposing granite domes and dramatic flat-topped mountains. Here you may be lucky enough to encounter some of the desert-dwelling elephant, the rare black rhino and other game which migrates across Damaraland according to the rains.

Day 8 : Game tracking for desert adapted elephant
This morning, you enjoy a morning game drive in open top 4x4 vehicles through the concession area for the rare desert dwelling elephant. The afternoon is at leisure.

Day 9 : 1 night, Rustig Toko Guestfarm, border of Kaokoland, Full Board
Today you continue further north into the Kaokoland to Rustig Toko Lodge. We will travel through a scenic mountainous landscape crossing a steep mountain pass, the ideal habitat of the klipspringer, a small antelope with a thick piny coat to give protection against the rocks. Rustig Toko Lodge is a small guest farm on the Eastern Edge of Etosha which offers the opportunity to see how a game farm operates on the very edge of a National Park.

Day 10 : 1 night, Okaukuejo Restcamp, Etosha National Park, Bed & Breakfast & Picnic Lunch
Continue to the Etosha National Park for your overnight stay at Okaukuejo Rest Camp. Etosha National Park lies to the north, one of the finest game parks in Southern Africa. It encloses a vast saltpan that becomes an immense, shallow lake in rainy periods, attracting great numbers of flamingos and other water birds. The Okaukuejo Camp is situated in the south of the Park at the western end of the pan. The floodlit permanent waterhole at Okaukuejo is its chief feature. Among the regulars are elephants and jackals, while lion and black rhino often visit in the dry season. The area near the camp offers spectacular game viewing.

Day 11 : 2 nights, Etosha Aoba Lodge, Etosha National Park, Full Board
Continue through the Park, game viewing en route to the Eastern section of Etosha for your two night stay at Etosha Aoba Lodge. Etosha Aoba Lodge is a friendly, charming thatched lodge amidst shady Tamboti trees with ten pleasant thatched rondavels and a pool. An appealing aspect of the lodge is the unique opportunity to actually walk upon the Fisher salt pan as part of a sundowner game drive. There are also several walking trails and a rewarding bird hide.

Day 13 : Return to Windhoek
After a last game drive this morning, you head south back to Windhoek in time for your onward flight.