Information

Included:

✓ Transport in a custom-built safari vehicle with air conditioning and charging port

✓ Services of a professional English-speaking guide & camp assistant

✓ 5 nights camping + 3 nights’ accommodation in twin share rooms with en-suite bathrooms

✓ Camping equipment (excluding sleeping bag, which can be hired)

✓ Meals as above (B – breakfast, L – lunch, D – dinner)

✓ National Park entry fees

✓ Activities including:

• Game drive on Mount Etjo and Okonjati Nature Reserve

• ½ Day Game drives in Tour Safaris vehicle in Etosha National Park

• Full-day game drive in an open game viewer

• Himba Village visit

• Visit to Cape Cross Seal Colony

• Spitzkoppe

• Sossusvlei excursion (including 4x4 shuttle)

✓ Pickup and drop-off at Windhoek International Airport

✓ Pick up and drop off within Windhoek city limits

Excluded:

❌ All drinks

❌ Snacks between meals

❌ Tips

❌ Item of a personal nature

❌ Optional activities

Tour Program

BB = Overnight stay | Breakfast

DBB = Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast

FB = Lunch or lunch packages | Dinner | Overnight stay | Breakfast, activities and activity

Day 1: Saturday Windhoek – Mount. Etjo and Okonjati Nature Reserve – 230 km

You will be collected from your accommodation within the Windhoek city limits at 07:15 and transferred to the departure point for a short pre-departure meeting.

Accommodation is camping at Mount Etjo.

Activities:

• Game Drive

• Lion Feed after dinner

Accommodation: Twin share tents, shared ablution at campsite

Meals: Lunch & Dinner

Day 2: Sunday – Mount. Etjo – Okaukuejo - Etosha National Park – 280 km

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 Otjiwarongo before continuing on to Etosha’s main camp at Okaukuejo.

Accommodation is at Okaukuejo Camp inside the park.

Activities:

• Game drive in Etosha

• After sunset, visit the Okaukuejo water hole for game watching.

Accommodation: Twin share tents, shared ablution at campsite

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Days 3: Monday – Okaukuejo – Halali – Okaukuejo - 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. 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.

Activities

• Game drive in an open safari vehicle

• Explore Etosha Pan

Accommodation: Twin share tents, shared ablution at campsite

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Days 4: Tuesday – Okaukuejo - Palmwag – 320 km

Time to leave Etosha and concentrate on some of Namibia’s other highlights. We will have an early breakfast and game drive our way out of the park and back to the main road.

Activities:

• Visit a Himba Village

• Sundowner

Accommodation: Twin share tents, shared ablution at the campsite.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Days 5: Wednesday – Palmwag - Spitzkoppe Campsite – 420 km

We have reached the limit of our northern adventure, and today we first head west to the Atlantic Ocean and then directly south, following the coastline to Cape Cross.

Activities:

• Look at Namibia’s National plant, the remarkable and endemic Welwitschia Mirabilis.

• Visit a seal colony

• Visit Spitzkoppe

Accommodation: Twin share tents, shared ablution at campsite.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Days 6: Thursday – Spitzkoppe– Swakopmund - 120 km

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

Activities:

• Visit the Zeila Shipwreck

• Visit Henties Bay

Lunch and dinner tonight are for your own account, Swakopmund boasts some truly excellent restaurants and our guide will be able to help you with recommendations and bookings.

Accommodation: Twin share rooms, en-suite bathroom

Meals: Breakfast

Days 7: Friday Swakopmund – Walvis Bay – Swakopmund – Windhoek – 420 km

We have a more leisurely start this morning and a lie-in, a big breakfast and a Wonder around town might well be the order of the day. There are some great curio shops, and excellent bookshops, and there is a real café culture going on here with plenty of small eateries serving delicious food.

We depart with our guide to the port town of Walvis Bay. Just 40 km along the coast to the south, Walvis Bay, (Whale Bay), the lagoon is an internationally recognised Ramsar site, (Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat) and is justly renowned for its birdlife and in particular flamingos which are usually abundant and found within easy photo distance from the shore.

Heading back to Swakopmund, we then take the main tar road back to Windhoek. We will have a light lunch en route and on arrival in Windhoek, you will be dropped off at your accommodation anywhere within the Windhoek city limits.

It is not recommended that you book flights departing this afternoon.

Accommodation: None

Meals: Breakfast & lunch

Days 8: Saturday - Sossusvlei visit – 120 km (Preferred lodges are Desert Camp, Desert Quiver Camp and Desert Homestead.)

Getting into the dunes as soon as the gate opens to the National Park an hour after sunrise is the name of the game this morning, and that means a pre-dawn start and a very early breakfast.

Activities:

• Visit Sossusvlei

• Visit Dead Vlei

• Visit Dune 45

• Visit Sesriem Canyon

Accommodation: Twin share, en-suite bathroom

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Days 9: Sunday – Windhoek – 320 km

Our last day today, but excitement is still on the menu. We head back to Solitaire, and we get to sample the apple pie that has made this homestead famous.

There is some lovely mountain scenery on our drive back to Windhoek. The road climbs up onto and over Namibia’s central plateau, and we return to Windhoek via the small community of BűellsPort and the small town of Rehoboth. We arrive mid-afternoon and will be dropped at your choice within Windhoek city limits.

Accommodation: None

Meals: Breakfast