This thorough 9-day safari takes in a wonderful variety of Nambian destinations. You’ll start off with a big-cat experience before even arriving at your first camp at Onguma. Next, you’ll explore the fascinating Etosha Pan, with its wide open spaces. After travelling through some farmland, your next camp is in wild Damaraland, home to black rhino. After an overnight in coastal town of Swakopmund, you’ll finally get to explore the dunes of Sossusvei and Namib-Naukluft National Park.
You’ll be collected from Windhoek International Airport and depart in your safari vehicle with your private guide. On your way to Ongava Tented Camp, you will visit the Okonjima’s AfriCat Day Centre, a wildlife sanctuary focusing on Africa’s big cats. You will arrive in time for an exciting and informative game drive and tour of the centre. Enjoy a light lunch before your journey continues north arriving at Ongava. The afternoon continues with a game drive on the private Ongava Game Reserve, culminating in a sundowner. Return after sunset with enough time to freshen up and enjoy a ‘safari dinner’ overlooking the camp’s floodlit waterhole.
Today is full of exciting game viewing within Etosha National Park, where you can enjoy the wide variety of game and birds to be found here. There are two options today, enjoy a full day game drive enjoying a picnic lunch at a waterhole or rest camp otherwise return to camp, relax in the pool, enjoy lunch and a siesta before heading out on your afternoon game drive. Once again, enjoy “game viewing” over dinner at the camp’s floodlit waterhole.
After breakfast, continue your safari to the heart of Namibia, Damaraland, travelling through farmlands and the small towns. You will enjoy a delicious Magic Box picnic en route and arrive in time to enjoy fireside sundowners at Camp Doros. Please note that today is a long day of travelling, rewarded with a full three-night stay at your next camp.
Today you will spend an exciting and memorable morning out rhino tracking with the assistance of local trackers. It’s worth noting that these black rhino form part of one of the only free-roaming black rhino populations in Africa, and tracking animals in an unfenced and uninhibited environment is an absolute privilege. You will return to camp for a freshly prepared lunch and with time to relax at camp during the heat of the day. Later in the afternoon you head out again for a scenic nature drive or walk to explore this vast and astounding ecosystem.
Today you continue your adventures exploring Damaraland with your private naturalist guide both by vehicle and on foot. The wildlife roam large tracks of unfenced desert landscapes and finding game can be challenging, but this is all part of the adventure of exploring this wild untouched gem of Namibia. Today’s focus will be largely on tracking the elusive desert adapted elephant in the ephemeral river systems, an activity which will mean spending most of the day out. Your guide will take along a delicious picnic lunch and you will return to camp in the late afternoon.
After an early breakfast and departure, the drive today takes you south past Namibia’s highest mountain, the Brandberg, which peaks at 2,573m above sea level, and then west to meet the coast at Henties Bay. You then continue south to the coastal town of Swakopmund, where you can enjoy the pleasant seaside location and cooler coastal air for the night. You stay on the eastern outskirts of the town, overlooking the Swakop River Valley and desolate desert dune landscapes. Tonight includes dinner at a popular restaurant, which specialises in locally harvested fresh seafood as well as other local and international dishes.
After an early breakfast you depart on a fascinating drive that takes you southeast through awesome and ever-changing desert landscapes via the impressive Gaub and Kuiseb canyons to meet the dunes at the settlement of Solitaire. A picnic lunch will be had en route, and you will continue onto the Namib Tsaris Conservancy, where you will spend your final two nights of your safari at the exclusive-use Sossus Under Canvas. Arrival should be in the mid-to-late afternoon, with enough time to acquaint yourself with the camp and enjoy a hot bucket shower before dinner.
Today brings an early rise for a magical excursion in Namib-Naukluft National Park, setting off before sunrise to capture the dunes while the light is soft and shadows accentuate the towering shapes and curves. Once you have explored Sossusvlei, Deadvlei and surrounding dune fields to your heart’s content, you can enjoy a relaxed picnic brunch in the shade of a camelthorn tree. You will return to camp for a late freshly prepared lunch and with time to relax. Later in the afternoon, you head out again for a scenic nature drive or walk to explore this vast and astounding ecosystem, and to enjoy a magnificent final safari sundowner.
After a leisurely breakfast this morning, you will depart from Sossusvlei and return to Windhoek, driving northeast up the Great Escarpment and through the scenic Khomas Hochland highlands. A tasty picnic lunch will again be served en route, and arrival in Windhoek should be by the mid afternoon. Upon your arrival in Windhoek you will be transferred to your accommodation for your onward travel arrangements.
