Highlights: Windhoek, Kalahari, Fish River Canyon, NamibRand Reserve / Namib Desert, Kunene, wonderful contrasts, desert-adapted animals in the wild, and changing landscapes.

INFORMATION

BB= Overnight stay | Breakfast
DBB= Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast
FB= Lunch or lunch packages | Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast and activities

Overnight: Lodge in the Kalahari Desert (Dinner, Bed & Breakfast)

Arrival in Windhoek at the Hosea Kutako International Airport.
Your pilot will meet you in the Arrivals Hall and escort you through your private charter plane (Cessna 210 or similar). Kindly
note that 10kg luggage (packed in soft bags) is allowed per person for this fly-in safari.
Your private charter fly-in safari can now commence. You fly to the small town of Mariental (flight time is approx. 01:05 hours).
A representative of the lodge will welcome you at Mariental Airport. Subsequent vehicle transfer to the lodge, (approx. 45
minutes) which is situated in the red dunes of the Kalahari Desert. You can spend the afternoon at leisure, or opt to book an
afternoon sundowner tour into the Kalahari directly with the lodge (optional). This activity is offered in an open and comfortable
off-road vehicle. The guide will share his knowledge and passion for this area. This is a tour to get to know the Kalahari with its
unforgettable landscapes, fauna and flora. Alternatively, you can also explore the Kalahari on foot, a map for walking trails is
available at the reception.

Overnight: Lodge in the Kalahari Desert (Dinner, Bed & Breakfast)

Today you can opt to partake in the variety of activities on offer from the lodge, or choose to relax in the magnificent Kalahari
environment. The Kalahari (also Kalagadi) is a thorn bush savannah, partially also a dry savannah, but is sometimes referred to
as a desert because of the prevailing red sands. Oryx, springbok and other smaller mammals avail themselves for wonderful
animal motifs, in the backdrop of the red dune sands. Optionally we recommend that you partake in a cheetah excursion today.

Overnight: Lodge in the Kalahari Desert (Dinner, Bed & Breakfast)

This morning you can spend the time at leisure, or optionally you can go on a guided bushman tour with the lodge. Get to know
this ancient tribe, their customs and traditions that they still keep today. Other activities include Cheetah Excursions, Morning,
Afternoon or Night Drives, Horseback Safari and many more. Alternatively, you can enjoy the day at leisure in the calm and
peaceful Kalahari environment and perhaps join a Star Safari from the Observatory to see the clear night sky (weather permitting).

Overnight: Lodge on the rim of the Fish River Canyon (Dinner, Bed & Breakfast)

You check out from the lodge at around 10:00 am today, and thereafter you will be transferred back to Mariental Airport, and
the flight circuit continues to the Fish River Canyon. After arrival and transfer from the airstrip to the lodge you can spend the
remaining afternoon at leisure, or chose to go on a sundowner tour with the lodge, or take a walk along the rim of the Canyon.
At 650 kilometres the Fish River is the longest river in Namibia. A very, very long time ago, the Fish River left the Naukluft
mountains attempting to find its way to the Orange River, in the south of the country. But mountains blocked its flow and so
the largest canyon in Africa was formed. It took 120 million years of meticulous work for the creation of the Fish River Canyon.
It is a vast labyrinth, in which temperatures of 50 degrees in the summer months are considered quite normal.

Overnight: Lodge on the rim of the Fish River Canyon (Dinner, Bed & Breakfast)

Today we recommend that you join a lodge tour which will take you deep into the Fish River Canyon. This is a day activity, and
can be booked directly with the lodge. The vehicle winds its way through the different layers of the massive canyon. 650 million
years ago you would have been standing at the bottom of a lake, here. If you look down to a depth of 550m, you get the feeling
that you are standing on the edge of eternity. Few places in the world reveal the layers of the earth as dramatically as the Fish
River Canyon. In the afternoon you return to the lodge for another overnight.

Overnight: Lodge in the Namib Rand Reserve (Fully Inclusive)

Today, after a leisurely breakfast, you will take off and fly to the coastal town of Lüderitz, here the plane will refuel. Thereafter
onward flight to the NamibRand Reserve, where you will spend the next four nights. All meals are included here, and you can
choose to partake in a variety of activities during the next days. Activities to choose from are Morning or Afternoon nature drives,
Sundowner or Sunrise drives, Full day scenic safari, village tour, fat E-Biking, and an Antares Tour (naked eye star safari), these
are just a few to mention.
Note however, this lodge does not offer visits to the Sossusvlei sites, as it is too far to reach this area.

Overnight: Lodge in the Namib Rand Reserve (Fully Inclusive)

During the next three days we recommend that you partake in as many activities as you can. The unique NamibRand Reserve
is a nature lovers ideal place. Virtually all the facets of the Namib Desert are represented on the Reserve – sand and gravel
plains and stretches of savanna alternate with mountain ranges, inselbergs and vegetated dune belts. We recommend
that you choose either a Morning or Afternoon nature drive today, to enjoy the splendour of the Reserve.

Overnight: Lodge in the Namib Rand Reserve (Fully Inclusive)

Enjoy another day filled with activities on offer from the lodge. How about exploring the environment on a Fat Bike Tour during
the course of the morning, following the winding roads through the reserve over hills, sand dunes and vast plains. You
can cycle to a little desert picnic spot or just down to the village. In the afternoon join a sundowner drive to round of the day
with a splendid sunset in nature. At a scenic point to bid farewell to another magical day. Sometimes you meet up with other
guests at one of the sundowner decks and at other times it’ll be just you on a sand dune.

Overnight: Lodge in the Namib Rand Reserve (Fully Inclusive)

Today we recommend that you join a full day scenic safari. Breathe and take in the crazy array of colours to be found in the
vast plains, mountains and sand dunes of the NamibRand reserve. You will also learn about small and large desert dwellers and
their quest for survival and you’ll discover a diverse flora, ranging from resilient beauty to hardened survivor – not to mention the
reserves fascinating geology.
Alternatively, you can choose to just relax on the last day at the lodge. The NamibRand Nature Reserve in the Namib Desert is
one of the quietest places on earth. It’s a big claim to make but it is true. Our daily lives are often filled with noise and activity,
but here on the reserve, the lodge will facilitate your escape from this.

Overnight: Lodge on the banks of the Kunene River (Fully inclusive)

The fly-in safari now takes you further north over the endless landscapes of the Namib desert via coastal town of Swakopmund
and onwards over the Skeleton Coast, up to Namibia’s northern border. En Route you will see Namibia’s spectacular and vastly
varying landscapes from the air. Many different shapes of dunes, old mining ghost towns, as well as eerie shipwrecks that are
dotting the shores of the Skeleton Coast here and there.
After arrival at the airstrip a scenic transfer takes you to the lodge which is situated on the banks of the Kunene River. This is an
extraordinary desert retreat, straddling an astonishingly contrasting landscape, in one of the most untouched and secluded areas
in Southern Africa. You can enjoy three overnights here which are all on a fully inclusive basis.

Overnight: Lodge on the banks of the Kunene River (Fully inclusive)

Today you can enjoy one of the many activities on offer at this unique lodge. The lodge offers a variety of activities including
nature drives, guided nature walks, boating, guided quad bike excursions, birding, stargazing with a laser pointer and a cultural
visit to a nearby working Himba village.
This are is area is a retreat where you can truly disconnect and unwind to the sound of rushing water, and beyond, to the
powerful silence of the desert. We recommend a nature drive today where you can discover the diverse and contrasting
landscapes, from dunes to fascinating geological features. Surprisingly a broad spectrum of amazing wildlife has adapted to this
environment. You can expect to see desert adapted Oryx, springbok, Hartmann’s mountain zebras, Nile crocodiles and myriad
birds on the banks of the Kunene river.

Overnight: Lodge on the banks of the Kunene River (Fully inclusive)

We recommend that you take a unique opportunity to explore the desert up close on a guided quad bike tour during the morning.
This excursion is conducted with the utmost care along specifically allocated pathways, so as to tread lightly on the dunes and
preserve the unique and delicate habitat of this landscape.
During the afternoon a boating excursion on the Kunene River is a recommendation. Expect to see an abundance of water bird
species as well as many Nile crocodiles. Optionally you can also visit a nearby Himba village and learn about the customs and
traditions of this ancient nomadic tribe.

Return to Germany

Today after breakfast and check out, you will be returning to the airstrip. From here your flight continues to Ondangwa for a
refuelling stop and thereafter your flight continues over the spectacular central Namibian highland landscapes back to the capital
Windhoek, to the Hosea Kutako international airport.
Here you bid your pilot farewell before checking in for your return flight home in the late afternoon.

Highlights: Windhoek,. Kalahari Desert, Fish River Canyon, Aus, Lüderitz and Kolmanskop, Sossusvlei and Sesriem Canyon, Deadvlei (Unesco World Heritage Site), Swakopmund, Twyfelfontein (Unesco World Heritage Site), desert-adapted elephants, Etosha National Park – diversity of wildlife in the wild, changing landscapes, encounters with Bushmen.

INFORMATION

BB= Overnight stay | Breakfast
DBB= Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast
FB= Lunch or lunch packages | Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast and activities

Overnight: Hotel in Windhoek
(self-catering)

Arrival at Windhoek airport. Transfer to the rental car company in Windhoek, pick up your rental car with camping equipment and roof tent. Afterwards you can drive into town and buy provisions for the first camping stage.
For this first evening in Windhoek you should book the desired restaurant in advance. We will be happy to make the table reservation for you.
Optional activities: Guided Katutura tour, city tour (also on your own).

Overnight: Camping in the Kalahari surroundings (self-catering)

After breakfast, drive south into the Kalahari.
Behind the Auas Mountains, the vastness of the land opens up like a picture book. On the way you will discover gigantic sieve weavers’ nests in ancient camel thorn acacias.
As you approach the lodge, endless linear dunes stretch across the limestone soil of the Kalahari. Oryx, springbok and smaller steenbok make wonderful animal motifs in the red dune sand. The Kalahari (also known as the Kgalagadi) is a thorn bush savannah, sometimes also a dry savannah, but is occasionally referred to as a desert due to the predominance of sand.
Once you have arrived at your camping accommodation, you have some time to relax.
Optional activities: In the afternoon, guided panoramic drive in the red Kalahari dunes with sundowner. The drive is carried out in an open and comfortable off-road vehicle with a lot of passion and without any hustle and bustle. It is a tour to get to know the Kalahari with unforgettable landscapes.
Explore the Kalahari on foot and on your own, a map with hiking trails is available at the reception.

Overnight: Camp in the Keetmanshoop area (dinner | accommodation | breakfast)

Before breakfast, you have the option of visiting a Bushman village. There you will learn about the way of life and some of the wisdom of this indigenous people.
Then continue south through the contrasting desert world. The journey takes you past the Quiver Tree Forest near Keetmannshoop.
Looking out over this harsh and unforgiving landscape, it is hard to imagine that you are standing at the foot of an ancient lake. True to Namibia, this is a place of contrast and diversity, with the history of the earth clearly visible in the beautiful rock formations.

Overnight: Camping at the Fish River Canyon (self-catering)

Today the journey continues south to the Fish River Canyon. At 650 kilometers, the Fish River is the longest river in Namibia. A very long time ago, it set off from the Naukluft Mountains in search of the Orange River in the south of the country. But mountains stood in its way and so, over 120 million years of painstaking work, it created the largest canyon in Africa, the Fish River Canyon. Not far from this enormous canyon landscape, in a direct line to the viewpoints, lies your destination for today, a campsite not far from the canyon.

Overnight: Camping at Fish River Canyon (self-catering)

Today you have the option of taking a guided tour to visit the canyon’s viewpoints. The Fish River Canyon is a gigantic labyrinth where temperatures of 50 degrees are normal in summer.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Aus (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

You venture further into the Namib Desert and spend the night in a lodge near Aus. Admittedly, an excursion to the Grand Duke Friedrich Mountain, the Kempinskiberg or the 2,484-metre-high Moltkeblick sounds very unusual. But you are still in Namibia. And the scene of history, where your next accommodation is located at 1,400 meters, is now called the Aus Mountains. A place where everyone can come to rest. Silence, endless expanses, a fantastic view of the Aus Mountains and widescreen sunsets are the program for a pleasurable slowdown.

Overnight stay: Lodge at Aus (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

You can organize the day as you wish.

Drive to Lüderitz in the morning with a visit to Kolmannskuppe. The first diamond was found by chance in 1908. The resulting boom led to the rapid growth of this settlement on the northern border of the restricted diamond area, which was initially only intended as a diamond prospecting camp. The wealth of the inhabitants, based on diamonds, gave rise to Kolmanskop. Over the decades, the desert reclaimed what man had wrested from it. The houses deteriorated visibly and sand piled up meters high in the ruins. Some of the interior furnishings were destroyed or taken away. Kolmanskop finally became a ghost town.

Continue to the small harbor town of Lüderitz, where you will also have the opportunity to buy more provisions for the next camping stage. Just 20,000 people live here. At first glance, the town presents an extremely bizarre sight. On one side the sea, on the other the desert and in the middle a small town built on the bare rock. The town’s landmark is the church, which was built on the highest point of the rock in 1911.

On the way back to Aus you might spot the wild horses at the Garub waterhole.

Overnight stay: Camping in the Tiras area (self-catering)

Today you drive through a geologically beautiful area into the southern Namib Desert. The rugged Tiras Mountains rise like a chain of islands from the endless expanses of red dunes and yellow grasslands. In the afternoon you arrive at the campsite in the middle of this magical landscape.

Overnight: Camping in the Sossusvlei area (self-catering)

Today you continue your journey into the southern Namib Desert. In the afternoon you will reach your campsite, which is situated not far from the famous Sossusvlei.

Overnight: Camping in the Sossusvlei area (self-catering)

This morning you can explore the sights of Sesriem Park. A dune landscape in the morning light offers an unforgettable scenery. For many years, the sporadically flowing water of the Tsauchab dry river has been fighting its way through the ever-growing dune landscape of the Namib Desert. However, it will never reach the sea, but seeps into a natural dune dam. Sossusvlei is surrounded by the highest dunes in the world, which suck the last bit of strength out of your legs as you climb them. Once you reach the top, you are richly rewarded with a fantastic view. Dune 45 is the most popular dune to climb.

Overnight stay: Camping in the Namib Desert (self-catering)

Continue via Solitaire and through the enchanting landscapes of the Namib Desert. Upon reaching Solitaire, visitors will first notice the many car wrecks picturesquely draped along the roadsides. As you drive on, the gravel plains of the Namib spread out before you, with a mountain here and there on the shimmering horizon. Today’s drive is not too far, and halfway between Sesriem and Swakopmund is the next lodge in the middle of the Namib Desert. Here you can relax extensively and also go on hikes in the surrounding area.

Overnight stay: Hotel in Swakopmund
(bed | breakfast)

Today the journey continues via Walvis Bay to Swakopmund. The long gravel roads are occasionally decorated with a small plume of dust. You are surrounded by breathtaking expanses and the most beautiful landscapes of the desert. You drive through granite sculpture landscapes, ancient erosion valleys and cross the occasional dry river. Arrive in Swakopmund at midday.
Optional activities: quad biking, camel riding, visit to the museum, aquarium, crystal gallery, riding safari, flight over the Skeleton Coast or Sossusvlei

Overnight: Hotel in Swakopmund (bed | breakfast)

This morning you have the option of taking part in an optional catamaran boat trip. Other activities such as desert tours or quad biking are also an option in Swakopmund and the surrounding area.Catamaran cruise: Between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, on the rugged coast of the Atlantic Ocean, you will experience the unique nature and wildlife of the Walvis Bay lagoon on board a spacious and comfortable catamaran. The four-hour trip takes you from the industrial harbor across the Walvis Bay oyster beds out to Pelican Point, home to a large colony of fur seals. The tour offers many highlights. Among other things, pelicans are hand-fed in flight. You will learn many interesting things about these animals and with a bit of luck, depending on the season, you will also see whales, leatherback turtles or moonfish (mola-molas). The desert tour, also known as the Living Desert Tour, is a unique experience in four-wheel drive vehicles, which aims to show our visitors the impressive beauty of the Namib Desert and demonstrate life in the desert. The coastal dune belt, which may seem barren and lifeless to some, is home to a fascinating variety of small animals that have adapted to the desert. They survive thanks to the fog that regularly rolls in from the cold Atlantic Ocean.

Come and admire the “dancing white lady”, a spider that spins its wheel down the dunes at 44 revolutions per second to escape an enemy. Marvel at the transparent desert gecko with toe fins that fulfill the function of snowshoes. Learn about the different beetles and insects and how they survive in the desert. Follow the tracks of the legless lizard, watch anchietas desert lizards diving into the sand and dancing on the glowing sand, the side-scooping otter snake, desert chameleons and countless other awe-inspiring creatures. Familiarize yourself with the geological structures of the desert and enjoy the endless beauty of the landscape during a drive through the dunes. A unique opportunity to experience the desert up close.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Twyfelfontein (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Continue north on the salt road towards Henties Bay via Uis northwards into Damaraland, both regions in the northwest are characterized by lonely expanses and barren desert landscapes, which are repeatedly interrupted by green oases and are home to the famous desert elephants.

You arrive at your accommodation in the early afternoon. Damaraland offers a wealth of geological and archaeological highlights. Named after the Damara people, the region is home to Namibia’s highest peak, the Brandberg, and Twyfelfontein, one of the most important rock engravings and paintings of the San, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Overnight: Camping at the Grootberg Plateau (self-catering)

This morning you have the option of visiting the rock engravings at Twyfelfontein on your own. The Twyfelfontein area is famous for some of the best Bushman drawings and rock engravings in Southern Africa. Interesting rock formations and the remains of prehistoric volcanic activity include the Organ Pipes, the Burnt Mountain, the Doros Crater and the Petrified Forest before continuing to the Grootberg Massif in Damaraland, where you will spend the next two nights in this picturesque landscape

Overnight: Camping at the Grootberg Plateau (self-catering)

Optional: Today you should take part in a guided rhino tracking activity, or you can also consider a desert elephant tour. Hikes in this picturesque area are also an option.

Overnight: Safari tent camping near Etosha National Park (self-catering)

After breakfast, you drive in a north-easterly direction, in the immediate vicinity of the world-famous Etosha National Park. Here, just outside the central Anderson Gate, lies your next camping accommodation with views of the surrounding savannah environment.

Overnight: Safari tent camping near Etosha National Park (self-catering)

Full-day game drive in Etosha Park on your own. Right from the entrance you have the opportunity to spot big game in the wild. The Etosha National Park has a biodiversity that is hard to beat. A variety of animals gather at the waterholes, which can lead to a spectacular experience. Every single waterhole has a unique character. For example, the Okondeka waterhole is one of the best for lion spotting. The predator can often be spotted here with prey. The waterhole is a natural spring and is located a little further north of Okaukuejo directly on the western edge of the pan. You return to your campsite in the late afternoon.

Overnight: Safari tent camping near Etosha National Park (self-catering)

Today you have another opportunity to explore Etosha National Park in your own vehicle. You leave the park before sunset and return to the campsite.

Overnight: Camping in a private game reserve near the Oromboko Mountains
(self-catering)

Today’s drive takes you further south to a private game reserve that is dedicated to the African cats. Optionally, you can take part in a leopard tracking activity here, for example.

Return flight to Germany.

The morning is at leisure before the drive back to the capital Windhoek. Here you have the opportunity to buy a souvenir that you have not yet found. The Bushmen Art Souvenirs, Ernst Holz, and the Craft Center are suitable.

Return your rental car in Windhoek and transfer to Hosea Kutako Airport.

Highlights: Windhoek, Kalahari Desert, Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei & Sesriem Canyon + Deadvlei (Unesco World Heritage Site), Swakopmund, Damaraland, Desert Adapted Elephants, Etosha National Park – Experience the abundance of wildlife in their natural habitat, variety of landscapes and geological features, and the opportunity to meet the San bushmen. Exclusive

INFORMATION

BB= Overnight stay | Breakfast
DBB= Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast

Overnight stay: Lodge in the Kalahari
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Flight arrival in the morning from Germany. Your pilot will welcome you in the arrivals hall at Hosea Kutako Airport.
10kg of luggage (packed in soft bags) is allowed per person for the flying safari.
The remaining luggage can be collected personally by a Trip Tours representative. Your luggage will be delivered safely to your hotel in Swakopmund.
Your private fly-in safari can now begin. You fly to Mariental, flight time approx. 01:05 hours. A representative of the lodge will welcome you at Mariental Airport. The car transfer to the lodge takes approx. 45 minutes. The afternoon is at leisure. We recommend booking a sundowner tour into the Kalahari savannah directly with the lodge (optional). This activity is offered in an open and comfortable off-road vehicle. The guide will be happy to share his knowledge and passion for this area with you. This is a tour to get to know the Kalahari with its unforgettable landscapes, fauna and flora. Alternatively, you can explore the Kalahari on foot, a map with hiking trails is available at the reception.

Overnight: Lodge at the Fish River Canyon (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

The morning hours are free for you to spend as you wish. Before breakfast, you can go on an optional Bushman tour with the lodge, where you can learn a lot about this indigenous people. Check out at around 10h00 and continue on to the Fish River Canyon. The afternoon is at leisure, optionally you can take part in a sundowner cruise or go on a hike in this picturesque setting.
The Fish River is the longest river in Namibia with a length of 650 kilometers. A very long time ago, it set off from the Naukluft Mountains in search of the Orange River in the south of the country. But mountains stood in its way and so, over 120 million years of painstaking work, it created the largest canyon in Africa: the Fish River Canyon, an igneous labyrinth in which temperatures of 50 degrees are nothing special. Your accommodation is located right on the edge of the canyon.

Overnight stay: Lodge at the Fish River Canyon(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast & canyon drive)

The four-wheel drive starts before sunrise with brunch in the Fish River Canyon. The vehicle winds its way through the various layers of the massive canyon. 650 million years ago, you would have been standing on the bottom of a sea here. If you look down into the depths of up to 550m, you get the feeling of standing on the edge of eternity. Few places in the world reveal the layers of the earth as dramatically as the Fish River Canyon. A light lunch en route is also included before returning to your lodge in the afternoon.

Overnight stay: Lodge in the Sossusvlei area (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today, after a leisurely breakfast, you will depart for Lüderitz where the plane will refuel – onward flight to the Sesriem area very close to the famous Sossusvlei sights, where you will spend the next two nights. Optionally, you can book a sundowner nature tour in the Namib Desert directly with the lodge.

Overnight: Lodge in the Sossusvlei area (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Optional: Today you should book an excursion to Sossusvlei with the lodge to explore the highest dunes in the world, the Vleis and the smaller Sesriem Canyon. This guided activity starts at sunrise with a guided four-wheel drive to the spectacular Sossusvlei dunes. The dune landscape in the morning light offers an unforgettable scenery.

For many years, the sporadically flowing water of the Tsauchab dry river has been fighting its way through the ever-growing dune landscape of the Namib Desert. However, it will never reach the sea, but seeps into a natural dune dam. Sossusvlei is surrounded by the highest dunes in the world, which suck the last bit of strength out of your legs as you climb them. Once you reach the top, you are richly rewarded with a fantastic view. Dune 45 is the most popular dune to climb.

Overnight: Hotel Swakopmund (bed | breakfast)

The fly-in safari now takes you further north over the endless landscapes of the Namib to the coastal town of Swakopmund. You will fly over many different dune formations, an old diamond ghost town and a shipwreck.

The rental car is handed over at Swakopmund Airport. Your self-drive safari starts here with the drive to your hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure and you can also explore the town on foot.

Overnight: Hotel Swakopmund (bed | breakfast)

The day is at your leisure. This morning you have the option of taking part in a catamaran boat trip. Other activities such as desert tours or quad biking are also an option in Swakopmund and the surrounding area.

Catamaran cruise: Between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, on the rugged coast of the Atlantic Ocean, you will experience the unique nature and wildlife of the Walvis Bay lagoon on board a spacious and comfortable catamaran. The four-hour trip takes you from the industrial harbor across the Walvis Bay oyster beds out to Pelican Point, home to a large colony of fur seals. The tour offers many highlights. Among other things, pelicans are hand-fed in flight. You will learn many interesting things about these animals.

The Desert Tour, also known as the Living Desert Tour, is a unique experience in 4WD vehicles that aims to introduce our visitors to the impressive beauty of the Namib Desert and showcase life in the desert. The coastal dune belt, which may seem barren and lifeless to some, is home to a fascinating variety of small animals that have adapted to the desert. They survive thanks to the fog that regularly rolls in from the cold Atlantic Ocean. A unique opportunity to experience the desert up close.

Other optional activities in Swakopmund and the surrounding area: golfing, quad biking, camel riding, visit to the museum, aquarium, riding safari, flight over the Skeleton Coast.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Twyfelfontein (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

The self-drive safari continues north on the salt road towards Henties Bay via Uis into Damaraland.

Both regions in the northwest are characterized by lonely expanses and barren desert landscapes, which are repeatedly interrupted by green oases and are home to the famous desert elephants.

You arrive at your accommodation in the early afternoon. Damaraland offers a wealth of geological and archaeological highlights. Named after the Damara people, the region is home to Namibia’s highest peak, the Brandberg, and Twyfelfontein, one of the most important rock engravings and paintings of the San, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Overnight: Lodge near Twyfelfontein (Dinner | Overnight | Breakfast)

Today we recommend that you book a tour directly with the lodge in the morning in search of the desert elephants that occur in the area. These have adapted to their arid semi-desert environment by having a smaller body mass with proportionally longer legs and seemingly larger feet than other elephants. They survive by eating moisture-rich vegetation that grows in ephemeral riverbeds and by going several days without drinking water. Sometimes they have to travel long distances to reach a water source
In the afternoon, you have the option of visiting the rock engravings at Twyfelfontein on your own. The Twyfelfontein area is famous for some of the best Bushman drawings and rock engravings in Southern Africa. Interesting rock formations and the remains of prehistoric volcanic activity include the Organ Pipes, Burnt Mountain, Doros Crater and Petrified Forest.

Overnight stay: Lodge on the Grootberg Plateau (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you will continue your journey to the Grootberg Massif in Damaraland, where you will spend the next two nights in this picturesque landscape. Optionally, you can take part in a sundowner tour on the plateau.

Overnight: Lodge on the Grootberg Plateau (Dinner | Overnight | Breakfast)

Optional: Today you should take part in a guided rhino tracking activity, or consider a desert elephant tour if you have not yet spotted them. The lodge also offers guided walks in this picturesque area.

Overnight stay: Lodge outside Etosha National Park (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you continue north to the famous Etosha National Park. Here, just outside the central Andersson Gate, you have an overnight stay on a private game reserve. Optionally, you can go on a game drive with the lodge on the reserve, which has a large number of different game species.

Overnight: Lodge on the Etosha East side (dinner | overnight | breakfast)

You leave the lodge this morning and drive into the Etosha National Park. This is a full day game drive in Etosha Park on your own. Right from the entrance you have the opportunity to spot big game in their natural habitat.

The Etosha National Park has a biodiversity that is hard to beat. A variety of animals gather at the waterholes, which can make for a spectacular experience. Every single waterhole has a unique character. For example, the Okondeka waterhole is one of the best for lion spotting. The predator can often be spotted here with prey. The waterhole is a natural spring and is located a little further north of Okaukuejo directly on the western edge of the pan.

Etosha National Park has a firm place on the world map of national parks. The numerous herds of animals are dependent on the waterholes for most of the year – ideal conditions for observing and photographing the animals.

In the late afternoon, you will arrive at the park’s east gate, the Von Lindequist Gate. Here you leave the park and after a short drive you reach your accommodation.

Overnight: Lodge on Etosha East National Park (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you have another opportunity to drive to various waterholes on the east side of the park in your rental car. Set off early to drive into the park right at the opening of the gates. At one particular waterhole there is usually a leopard resting in the tree after its nightly hunt. Return to your lodge in the late afternoon.

Overnight stay: Lodge at the Waterberg
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

On the drive to the Waterberg, it is worth making a detour to the Hoba meteorite.
This is probably the largest lump of iron (over 50 tons) of its kind and is worth seeing for this reason alone. Isotope studies suggest an impact 80000 years ago. A special feature of the meteorite is that there are no signs of impact craters or similar, as is to be expected with a meteorite of this size. Continue via Otjiwarongo to the Waterberg region. Your accommodation is located directly on the Waterberg. In the afternoon, you can take part in an optional nature tour to explore this special environment.

Overnight: Lodge at the Waterberg
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you have the opportunity to explore the Waterberg Plateau Park on your own.

The Table Mountain massif, which is 20 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers long, consists of porous sandstone. Precipitation seeps through the permeable rock and meets an impermeable clay layer at the bottom. While it is very dry at the top of the plateau, there is plenty of surface water and powerful permanent springs at the foot. The vegetation here is therefore comparatively lush and green and particularly rich in species.

Thanks to reintroduction, the two rhino species found in Namibia, white and black rhino, the only known healthy groups of African buffalo, sable, roan and tsessebe, as well as leopards and cheetahs, are also present today.

The lodge also offers optional afternoon rhino tracking drives, which occur on the reserve.

Overnight: Lodge near Otjiwarongo (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today’s drive takes you back via Otjiwarongo and a little further on to a private game reserve that is dedicated to the welfare of African cats, among other things. Here you can take part in an optional leopard tracking activity in the afternoon, but other informative activities are also on offer.

Return flight to Germany.

The journey today takes you back to the capital Windhoek. If time permits, you can buy a souvenir in Windhoek that you have not yet found. The Bushmen Art Souvenirs, Ernst Holz, and the Craft Center are suitable.

Return your rental car in good time before departure, at Hosea Kutako Airport.

Highlights: Windhoek, Kalahari, Fish River Canyon and the Orange River, wild horses, Kolmannskuppe & Lüderitz, Tiras Mountains, Sossusvlei, Sesriem & Dead Vlei, Namib Desert Swakopmund, Erongo Mountains, Etosha National Park, Waterberg, wonderful landscapes, variety of animals and encounters with Bushmen

INFORMATION

BB= Overnight stay | Breakfast
DBB= Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast
FB= Lunch or lunch packages | Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast and activities

Overnight: Guest farm outside Windhoek (dinner | overnight | breakfast)

Pick up your rental car. After about 90 minutes’ drive, you will reach your first accommodation, a guest farm.
Optional: In the afternoon, take a tour with sundowner, visit the gardens and the African Kirikara Art & Craft Weaving and Goldsmith Studios. The observatory, AstroVilla, offers its admirers insights into the galaxies of the universe.

Overnight stay: Lodge in the Kalahari
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

After breakfast, head south into the Kalahari.

Behind the Auas Mountains, the vastness of the country opens up like a picture book. On the way, you will discover gigantic sociable weavers’ nests in ancient camel thorn acacias.

As you approach the lodge, endless linear dunes stretch across the limestone soil of the Kalahari. Once you arrive at your accommodation, you have some time to relax.

Optional activities: Afternoon, guided panoramic drive in the red Kalahari dunes with sundowner. The drive is carried out in an open and comfortable off-road vehicle with a lot of passion and without any hustle and bustle.

It is a tour to get to know the Kalahari with unforgettable viewpoints on the red dune ridges (duration approx. 2.5 hours)

Explore the Kalahari on foot and on your own. A map with hiking trails is available at reception

Overnight stay: Lodge in the Kalahari
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Before you set off today, you can take part in an optional guided tour to a Bushman village. There you will learn about the way of life and some of the wisdom of this indigenous people.

The journey then continues. You penetrate deeper into the Kalahari and soon reach your next accommodation, which is situated almost on the eastern border of Namibia.

Optional: walking safaris, game drives (also at night), special game drives for children, bird watching, stargazing, lion tracking, barbecues in the dunes, etc.

Overnight: Lodge in the Kalahari
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you can take part in an optional lodge activity and explore this unique Kalahari environment. We recommend a game drive or lion tracking

Overnight stay: Camp in Kalagadi Park
(self-catering| overnight stay)

You enter the Kgalagadi Park (Botswana) through the border post at Mata Mata. The special feature of this part of the Kalahari is the reddish-yellow sand dunes that can be found here in the extreme southwest of Botswana and whose shapes enchant the observer. The park is famous for its resident Kalahari lions with their distinctive black manes. The camp has a restaurant where meals can be taken.

Overnight stay: Camp in Kalagadi Park
(self-catering| overnight stay)

You can explore the Kalagadi National Park extensively on game drives today. The park has a total area of over 3.6 million hectares and is located in the north of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and in the southwest of Botswana. It borders Namibia to the west. As it is a conservation park that stretches across national borders, it is also one of the Peace Parks.

Overnight stay: Lodge at the Fish River Canyon (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

The journey takes you back to Namibia today, and the journey continues south through the contrasting desert world to the Fish River Canyon. At 650 kilometers, the Fish River is the longest river in Namibia. A very long time ago, it set off from the Naukluft Mountains in search of the Orange River in the south of the country. But mountains stood in its way and so, over 120 million years of painstaking work, it created the largest canyon in Africa: the Fish River Canyon, an igneous labyrinth in which temperatures of 50 degrees are nothing special. Your accommodation is located not far from this enormous canyon landscape, in a direct line to the viewpoints.

Overnight stay: Lodge at the Fish River Canyon (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

After breakfast today, drive on your own to the viewpoint of the second largest canyon in the world. If you look down into the canyon, which is up to 550 m deep, you get the feeling of standing on the edge of eternity. Few places in the world reveal the layers of the earth as dramatically as the Fish River Canyon. The lodge also offers optional morning and afternoon drives, sundowner drives and guided hikes.

Overnight stay: Lodge on the Orange River (bed | breakfast)

The journey continues to the Orange River, which is the border river between Namibia and South Africa. If time permits, you can take an optional canoe tour on the river.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Aus
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Continue this morning to the small town of Aus. Admittedly, an excursion to the Grand Duke Friedrich Mountain, the Kempinskiberg or the 2,484-meter-high Moltkeblick sounds very unusual. But you are still in Namibia and the scene of history, where your next accommodation is located at 1,400 meters, is now called the Aus Mountains. A place where everyone can come to rest. Silence, endless expanses, a fantastic view of the Aus Mountains and widescreen sunsets are the program for a pleasurable deceleration.

Overnight stay: Lodge at Aus (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

You can spend the day as you wish.

Drive to Lüderitz in the morning with a visit to Kolmannskuppe. The wealth of the inhabitants, based on diamonds, gave rise to Kolmanskop. Over the decades, the desert reclaimed what man had wrested from it. The houses deteriorated visibly and sand piled up meters high in the ruins. Some of the interior furnishings were destroyed or taken away. Kolmanskop finally became a ghost town.

Continue to the small harbor town of Lüderitz, which was built on bare rock. On the way back to Aus you might spot the wild horses at the Garub waterhole.

For dinner, you can order a prepared barbecue package for your chalet. From your terrace you can enjoy a fantastic sunset with an extraordinary view over the vastness of the desert.

Overnight: Lodge in the Tiras area (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you drive through a geologically beautiful area into the southern Namib Desert. The rugged Tiras Mountains rise like a chain of islands from the endless expanses of red dunes and yellow grasslands. Here lies the lodge in the heart of the Tiras Mountains.

Optional: On a guided tour you will learn about life at a lodge on the edge of the desert.

Overnight: Lodge in the Sossusvlei area (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you will travel further north to the Sossusvlei area. In the afternoon you will reach your accommodation.optional activities: sightseeing flights, balloon trips, nature tours.

Overnight: Lodge in the Sossusvlei area
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Drive to Sesriem Park in the morning, because a dune landscape in the morning light offers an unforgettable landscape. For many years, the sporadically flowing water of the Tsauchab dry river has been fighting its way through the ever-growing dune landscape of the Namib Desert. However, it will never reach the sea, but seeps away into a natural dune dam. Sossusvlei is surrounded by the highest dunes in the world, which suck the last bit of strength out of your legs as you climb them. Once at the top, you are richly rewarded with a fantastic view. Dune 45 is the most popular dune to climb.

Overnight stay: Lodge in the Namib Desert (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Continue via Solitaire and through the enchanting landscapes of the Namib Desert. Upon reaching Solitaire, visitors will first notice the many car wrecks picturesquely draped along the roadsides. As you drive on, the gravel plains of the Namib spread out before you, with a mountain here and there on the shimmering horizon. Today’s drive is not too far, and halfway between Sesriem and Swakopmund is the next lodge in the middle of the Namib Desert. Here you can relax extensively and also go on hikes in the surrounding area.

Overnight stay: Hotel in Swakopmund

After breakfast, drive to Swakopmund via Walvis Bay. The long gravel roads are occasionally decorated with a small plume of dust. You are surrounded by breathtaking expanses and the most beautiful landscapes of the desert. You drive through granite sculpture landscapes, ancient erosion valleys and cross the occasional dry river. Optional activities: quad biking, camel riding, visit to the museum, aquarium, crystal gallery, riding safari, flight over the Skeleton Coast or Sossusvlei.

Overnight: Hotel in Swakopmund

This morning you have the option of taking part in a catamaran boat trip. Other activities such as desert tours or quad biking are also an option in Swakopmund and the surrounding area.Catamaran cruise: Between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, on the rugged coast of the Atlantic Ocean, you will experience the unique nature and wildlife of the Walvis Bay lagoon on board a spacious and comfortable catamaran. The four-hour trip takes you from the industrial harbor across the Walvis Bay oyster beds out to Pelican Point, home to a large colony of fur seals. The tour offers many highlights. Among other things, pelicans are hand-fed in flight. You will learn many interesting things about these animals.

The Desert Tour, also known as the Living Desert Tour, is a unique experience in 4WD vehicles that aims to introduce our visitors to the impressive beauty of the Namib Desert and showcase life in the desert. The coastal dune belt, which may seem barren and lifeless to some, is home to a fascinating variety of small animals that have adapted to the desert. They survive thanks to the fog that regularly rolls in from the cold Atlantic Ocean. A unique opportunity to experience the desert up close.

Overnight stay: Lodge in the Erongo region (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today’s journey takes us back into the interior of the country, into the picturesque Erongo region. Today’s Erongo is no more than a fraction of what was once a mighty volcano. Around 130 million years ago, shortly before the ancient continent of Gondwanaland began to break apart and the continents of South America and Africa were formed, the Erongo massif was formed where it stands today. No matter which side you approach the Erongo from, it always forms a beautiful backdrop. Hikes through the granite fields are ideal in this nature reserve. The reddish mountain slopes and bizarre clusters of huge boulders are surrounded by diverse plant life, which is watered by small streams, especially in summer. From the heights, there are breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside.

Here you can take an optional guided hike with the lodge or a nature tour with sundowner.

Overnight: Camp in Etosha National Park (Dinner | Overnight | Breakfast)

Today we continue north to the famous Etosha National Park. The entrance to the park is through the Anderson Gate. Right from the entrance you have the opportunity to spot big game in the wild. Etosha National Park has a firm place on the world map of national parks. The numerous herds of animals are dependent on the waterholes for most of the year – ideal conditions for observing and photographing the animals.

Overnight: Lodge on the eastern side of Etosha National Park (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

With a length of 130 km and a width of 50 km, the Etosha Pan is by far the largest in Africa and also the most striking feature of the park. The total area is approximately 4800 km2, which is about a quarter of the total area of Etosha National Park. Etosha National Park has a biodiversity that is hard to beat. A variety of animals gather at the waterholes, which can lead to a spectacular experience. Today you cross the national park in an easterly direction and thus have the opportunity to drive to the waterholes completely to the east. You leave the park at the Von Lindequist Gate and reach your accommodation after a few kilometers.

Overnight: Lodge on the east side of Etosha National Park (dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you have another opportunity to drive to various waterholes in the park in your rental car. Set off early to drive into the park as soon as the gates open. At one particular waterhole there is usually a leopard resting in the tree after its nightly hunt. Return to your lodge in the late afternoon.

Overnight: Guest farm near Tsumeb
(Dinner | Overnight | Breakfast)

You leave the Etosha area this morning, and the drive continues south to your next accommodation, a guest farm located just outside the mining town of Tsumeb.Optional activities on offer here are: Farm and rhino tour. A charming contrast to Etosha: game such as oryx, impala, eland, blesbok and hartebeest live in the mountains of the 30 km² nature reserve. You will almost always come across white rhino. Another highlight are the unique rock engravings of our ancestors. The elephant is famous among experts.

Other activities include a visit to the Ghaub Cave. The cave is part of a farm and lies 38 meters below the surface. It has a humid underground world formed by a forced mixture of water and calcium for the last seven million years.

Rhino tracking: Accompany the trackers of the “Rhino Patrol” on foot in search of the white rhinos. You will learn a lot about the animals’ behavior and, if successful, meet them at eye level. Fitness is required.

Farm Tour: This tour gives you a fascinating insight into an extraordinary farm operation

Overnight stay: Lodge at the Waterberg
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

On the drive to the Waterberg, it is worth making a detour to the Hoba meteorite.
This is probably the largest lump of iron (over 50 tons) of its kind and is worth seeing for this reason alone. Isotope studies suggest an impact 80000 years ago. A special feature of the meteorite is that there are no signs of impact craters or similar, as is to be expected with a meteorite of this size. Continue via Otjiwarongo to the Waterberg region. Your accommodation is located directly on the Waterberg. In the afternoon, you can take part in an optional nature tour to explore this farm.

Overnight: Lodge at the Waterberg
(dinner | overnight stay | breakfast)

Today you have the opportunity to explore the Waterberg Plateau Park on your own.

The Table Mountain massif, which is 20 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers long, consists of porous sandstone. Precipitation seeps through the permeable rock and meets an impermeable clay layer at the bottom. While it is very dry at the top of the plateau, there is plenty of surface water and powerful permanent springs at the foot. The vegetation here is therefore comparatively lush and green and particularly rich in species.

Thanks to reintroduction, the two rhino species found in Namibia, white and black rhino, the only known healthy groups of African buffalo, sable, roan and tsessebe, as well as leopards and cheetahs, are also present today.

Return flight to Germany

On the way to Windhoek, it is worth making a stop at the woodcarving market in Okahandja. It is the largest woodcarving market in Namibia. Continue to Windhoek.

Return your rental car in good time before departure, at Hosea Kutako Airport.

This self-drive safari offers you a lot from the present and the past. You will meet the people of different nations and learn how they live and have lived. Walk in the footsteps of colonial times in Lüderitzbucht and Swakopmund. Experience the landscape of the red Kalahari, the breathtaking Fish River Canyon, the spectacular dunes of Sossusvlei and the wildlife-rich Etosha National Park. Enjoy the solitude of untouched Damaraland and the rugged Kaokoveld.
You will stay in standard lodges and hotels (2*-3*). Our first choice is always accommodation with special features or in close proximity to attractions without sacrificing quality. Alternatives can be offered depending on interest, budget or availability.

Highlights: Windhoek, Kalahari Desert, Bushmen, Fossils, Quiver Tree Forest + Gigantic Rock Formations, Fish River Canyon, Kolmanskop, Lüderitz, Sossusvlei, Deadvlei, Namib Desert, Swakopmund, Twyfelfontein, Desert Elephants, Himbas, Epupa Falls, Etosha National Park, breathtaking landscapes and a variety of wildlife

INFORMATION

BB= Overnight stay | Breakfast
DBB= Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast

Overnight: Hotel in Windhoek Overnight BB

Arrival in Windhoek (Hosea Kutako Airport). Pick up your rental car. Approx. 30 minutes drive to your accommodation in Windhoek. For the first and last evening in Windhoek you should book the desired restaurant in advance (we will be happy to give you some recommendations).
Optional: Guided Katutura Tour, city tour (also on your own).

Overnight: Lodge in the Kalahari DBB

After breakfast, drive into the Kalahari Desert. Behind the Auas Mountains, the vastness of the land opens up like a picture book. Endless dunes stretch linearly across the limestone soil of the Kalahari. Optional: afternoon guided drive in the red Kalahari dunes with sundowner. It is a tour to get to know the Kalahari with unforgettable viewpoints on the red dune ridges (duration approx. 2.5 hours)

Optional: Explore the Kalahari on foot and on your own

Overnight: Camp in the Keetmanshoop area DBB 

After breakfast, you can take part in an optional activity to meet the Bushmen. Here you will learn more about their way of life. Afterwards, continue into the arid, almost barren region along the edge of the Kalahari to Keetmanshoop. This afternoon you can take part in a guided fossil tour (optional). We call this area the Quiver Tree Forest in the Giants’ Playground, because it really does give the impression that giants carefully stacked the rocks here and then decorated them with beautiful trees.

Overnight stay: Lodge on the Fish River Canyon DBB

After breakfast, the journey continues south. It is worth taking a break at the Naute Dam. A distillery (distillate project) is operated here. The 650-kilometer Fish River is the longest river in Namibia. A very long time ago, it set off from the Naukluft Mountains in search of the Orange River in the south of the country. But mountains stood in its way and so, over 120 million years of painstaking work, it created the largest canyon in Africa, the Fish River Canyon. Your accommodation today is not far from this enormous canyon landscape, in a direct line to the viewpoints.

Overnight: Lodge at the Fish River Canyon DBB 

Today, after breakfast, drive on your own to the viewpoint of the second largest canyon in the world. Looking down to a depth of 550 m, you get the feeling of being on the edge of eternity. Few places in the world reveal the layers of the earth as dramatically as the Fish River Canyon. The lodge also offers optional morning and afternoon drives, sundowner drives and guided hikes.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Aus DBB 

After breakfast, continue westwards to Aus. You cross hilly landscapes and reach your accommodation at lunchtime with a fantastic view of the endless desert.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Aus

In the morning, drive towards Lüderitz with a visit to Kolmanskop. The first diamond was found by chance in 1908. The resulting boom led to the rapid growth of this settlement on the northern border of the restricted diamond area, which was initially only intended as a diamond prospecting camp. The wealth of the inhabitants, based on diamonds, gave rise to Kolmanskop. The houses deteriorated rapidly and sand piled up meters high in the ruins. Some of the interior furnishings were destroyed or taken away. Kolmanskop finally became a ghost town.
Continue to the small harbor town of Lüderitz, which was built on bare rock. On the way back to Aus you might spot wild horses at the Garub waterhole.

Overnight: Camp in the Sossusvlei area DBB 

Today you drive through a geologically beautiful area into the southern Namib Desert. The rugged Tiras Mountains rise like a chain of islands from the endless expanses of red dunes and yellow grasslands. In the afternoon you reach your camp, which is situated near the famous Sossusvlei.

Overnight: Camp in the Sossusvlei area DBB 

Drive into the park in the morning, as a dune landscape in the morning light offers an unforgettable landscape. Sossusvlei is surrounded by the highest dunes in the world, which suck the last bit of strength out of your legs as you climb them. Once at the top, you are richly rewarded with a fantastic view. Dune 45 is the most popular dune to climb. Afterwards, you can pay a visit to the smaller Sesriem Canyon.

Overnight: Lodge in the Namib Desert DBB

Continue via Solitaire and through the enchanting landscapes of the Namib Desert. Upon reaching Solitaire, visitors first notice the many car wrecks picturesquely draped along the roadsides. As you drive on, the gravel plains of the Namib spread out before you, with a mountain here and there on the shimmering horizon. Today’s drive is not too far, and halfway between Sesriem and Swakopmund is the next lodge in the middle of the Namib Desert. Here you can relax extensively and also go on hikes in the surrounding area.

Overnight: Hotel in Swakopmund BB

After breakfast, drive via Walvis Bay to Swakopmund. Arrival in the coastal town of Swakopmund at midday.
Optional activities: quad biking, camel riding, visit to the museum, aquarium, crystal gallery, horseback safari, flight over the Skeleton Coast or Sossusvlei.

Overnight: Hotel in Swakopmund BB

This morning you can consider an optional catamaran cruise or desert tour.
Catamaran cruise: Between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, on the rugged coast of the Atlantic Ocean, you will experience the unique nature and wildlife of the Walvis Bay lagoon on board a spacious and comfortable catamaran. The four-hour trip takes you from the industrial harbor across the Walvis Bay oyster beds out to Pelican Point, home to a large colony of fur seals. The tour offers many highlights. Among other things, pelicans are hand-fed in flight. You will learn many interesting things about these animals and with a bit of luck, depending on the season, you may also see whales, leatherback turtles or moonfish (mola-molas). Shortly before the end of the tour – and this is the culinary highlight – fresh oysters and champagne are served as well as snack platters and cool drinks.
Desert Tour: also known as the Living Desert Tour, this is a unique experience in four-wheel drive vehicles that aims to show our visitors the impressive beauty of the Namib Desert and demonstrate life in the desert. The coastal dune belt, which may seem barren and lifeless to some, is home to a fascinating variety of small animals that have adapted to the desert. They survive thanks to the fog that regularly rolls in from the cold Atlantic Ocean.
Come and admire the “dancing white lady” (Carparachne aureoflava), a spider that spins its wheel down the dunes at 44 revolutions per second to escape an enemy. Marvel at the transparent desert gecko (Pachydactylus rangei) with toe fins that fulfill the function of snowshoes. Learn about the different beetles and insects and how they survive in the desert. Follow the tracks of the legless lizard (Fitsimmon’s Burrowing Skink), watch Anchieta desert lizards (Meroles anchieta) diving into the sand and dancing on the glowing sand, the side-swiping otter (Peringuey otter), desert chameleons and countless other awe-inspiring creatures. Familiarize yourself with the geological structures of the desert and enjoy the endless beauty of the landscape during a tour of the dunes. It’s sure to be a lot of fun and an adrenaline rush.
A unique opportunity to experience the desert up close.

Overnight: Lodge in the Twyfelfontein area DBB

Continue north on the salt road towards Henties Bay. Here you can continue to Cape Cross, where, in addition to the cross of the Portuguese navigator Diego Cao, there is a colony of dwarf fur seals. It is one of the largest colonies in the world and is also open to visitors. From Henties Bay, you continue north via Uis towards Twyfelfontein.
Both regions in the northwest are characterized by lonely expanses and barren desert landscapes, which are interrupted by green oases and are home to the famous desert elephants.
You reach your lodge in the early afternoon. Damaraland offers a wealth of geological and archaeological highlights. Named after the Damara people, the region is home to Namibia’s highest peak, the Brandberg, and Twyfelfontein, one of the most important rock engravings and paintings of the San, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Overnight: Lodge in the Twyfelfontein area DBB

Today in the morning you can consider an optional guided drive in search of the desert elephants. The afternoon is at leisure.

Optional: Visit (on your own) to the Twyfelfontein area. The Twyfelfontein area is famous for some of the best Bushman drawings and rock engravings in Southern Africa.

Overnight: Lodge in Opuwo DBB 

After breakfast, drive further north into the Kunene Region.
One of the most scenically stunning regions in Namibia. The landscape is very rocky and mountainous and you can discover cone-shaped hill ranges. Many species of wild animals live in the area, such as desert elephants, rhinos and giraffes. The Himba and Herero tribes who live here traditionally live as hunters and gatherers or as cattle breeders. The location of your accommodation offers a fantastic view of the surrounding mountain landscape.

Overnight: Camp at the Epupa Falls

This morning, the journey continues to the 1,207-kilometre-long Kunene River, which carries water all year round. In fact, it seems like the end of the Namibian world. From Ruacana, where the Kunene meets the Namibian border, the river forms the natural border between Angola and Namibia in a westerly direction before it flows into the South Atlantic in a delta up to 30 kilometers wide.
Until the Tertiary period, the Kunene flowed into today’s Etosha Pan, which at that time formed an inland delta and Lake Ekuma, similar to the Okavango Delta. Arrival at camp around midday. The afternoon is at leisure

Overnight: Camp at the Epupa Waterfalls DBB 

This morning you should consider visiting a traditional Himba village. Learn more about the customs and way of life of one of Africa’s last nomadic tribes. The Himba are a proud people who have adapted to western civilization minimally and only as necessary. Another optional activity here would be a late afternoon sundowner drive up a hill overlooking the Epupa Falls. The sunset activity can also be done with a local guide who will take you on a scenic walk to the viewpoint.

Overnight stay: Lodge near Ruacana
DBB

This morning, after breakfast, continue along the enchanting landscapes of the Kunene River, past small primeval villages to the vicinity of Ruacana. Here you can enjoy an overnight stay directly on the Kunene.

Overnight: Camp in Etosha National Park BB

After breakfast, head south into the world-famous Etosha National Park. The entrance to the park is through the Galton Gate. Right from the entrance you have the opportunity to spot big game in the wild.

Overnight: Camp in Etosha National Park BB

You leave the camp, which is situated on one of the hilly hills, and head into the vast, completely flat plain of Etosha Park. On the approx. 200 km route through the park to the next rest camp, you can plan a detour to the “Ghost Forest” (Afrikaans “Sprookieswoud”). This detour is particularly worthwhile for botanists. It owes its name to the masses of moringa trees that grow here, which actually only occur on stony ground.

Overnight: Camp in Etosha National Park BB

If you wish, you can leave the camp and explore the park on your own. Etosha National Park has a biodiversity that is hard to beat. A wide variety of animals gather at the waterholes, which can make for a spectacular experience.

Overnight: Camp in Etosha National Park BB 

Today you have the whole day at your disposal for another game drive on your own. Every single waterhole has a unique character. The Okondeka waterhole, for example, is one of the best for lion spotting. The predator can often be spotted here with prey. The waterhole is a natural spring and is situated a little north of Okaukuejo directly on the western edge of the pan.

Overnight: Hotel in Windhoek BB

The last short stage to the exit through the Anderson Gate is sure to be crowned by the sighting of roaming antelopes or perhaps a rhino. On the way to Windhoek you have the opportunity to visit the largest woodcarving market in Namibia in Okahandja. Once you arrive in Windhoek, you have the opportunity to buy that souvenir you have not yet found at the Craft Center, Leder Chick or Bushmen Art.

Return flight to Germany

Return your rental car to Hosea Kutako Airport in good time before check-in for your flight home.