14 DAYS NAMIBIA BEST EXPEREINCE (Camping)

Welcome to Namibia! Depending on how late in the day you arrive, you may begin your journey south on the main highway. You will travel through the thin strip of the Kalahari Desert, which turns onto the eastern side of Namibia. If you arrive later in the day or evening, it is recommended not to drive past 11 pm in Windhoek. Instead, stay for the night in Windhoek, and begin your journey to the desert early in the morning.

Included Activities

• Night game drive

Optional Activities

• cheetah feedings, bush walks, horseback safaris, and helicopter rides

Overnight & Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch Campsite

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

In the morning, you will drive through the town of Mariental which is an arid city just off the Hardap Dam. You will then head to Keetmanshoop. This is an old German town where you can grab some lunch.

Take in the vast and beautiful views, and if you need to, fill your gas tank. Then, you will drive to the Mesosaurus Fossil Site and Quiver Tree Dolerite Park, which is a place where the past meets the present. The gorgeous rock formations all around speak of a lost time. You can embark on a hiking trail, along with a sun-downer drive alongside the Quiver trees, which are looked upon as living fossils, themselves.

Once you have concluded your visit, you can head to Fish River Canyon. You will find several options for campsites. Choose one to settle into, and get comfortable, so you can enjoy your evening of camping in the wilderness.

Included activities

• scenic chartered flights and nature drives

Optional Activities

• Horse riding and seasonal kayaking.

Overnight & Canyon Roadhouse Campsite

In the morning, you will drive through the town of Mariental which is an arid city just off the Hardap Dam. You will then head to Keetmanshoop. This is an old German town where you can grab some lunch. Take in the vast and beautiful views, and if you need to, fill your gas tank.

Then, you will drive to the Mesosaurus Fossil Site and Quiver Tree Dolerite Park, which is a place where the past meets the present. The gorgeous rock formations all around speak of a lost time.

You can embark on a hiking trail, along with a sun-downer drive alongside the Quiver trees, which are looked upon as living fossils, themselves. Once you have concluded your visit, you can head to Fish River Canyon. You will find several options for campsites. Choose one to settle into, and get comfortable, so you can enjoy your evening of camping in the wilderness.

Included activities

• scenic chartered flights and nature drives

Optional Activities

• Horse riding and seasonal kayaking.

Overnight & Canyon Roadhouse Campsite

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

After your night of camping, it will be time to begin your drive towards Luderitz the town of a unique geographical setting, pinkish sand dunes of the Namib Desert and colonial buildings boasting German art.

Included activities

• Visit Kolmanskop, the Ghost Town in the desert, visit big bay, Bogenfels, and Pomona Tour

Overnight & Timo’s Guesthouse Accommodation

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

In the morning, you can enjoy some time in the desert town. One of the popular attractions in Aus is Namib’s feral horses, which are known as the world’s only wild horses that roam the deserts. Although there is a lot of debate surrounding how they arrived in Namibia, they are worth a visit.

These scruffy and bony horses are easy to find on most of the nearby safaris, and you can likely spot them grazing on the side of the road. Then, you will hit the road, heading deep into ancient southern Namib, traveling on small gravel roads and passing some tiny rural communities along the way. You will eventually reach Sossusvlei and its famed red dunes.

Included activities

• Sundowner at Elim Dunes

Overnight & Desert Homestead Horse Trails

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

Today and tomorrow, you’ll take part in an early morning excursion that travels along the path of the ancient Tsauchab River into the Namib Sand Sea. The adventure highlights the Sossusvlei Desert, including Dune 45 and Dead Vlei all surrounded by red dunes in the southern part of the Namib Desert.

Included Activities

• Sundowner Desert Drive, Night Walk with Star Gazing

Optional Activities

• Scenic Flights over the dunes

Overnight & Sossus Oasis Campsite

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

Guest will wake up and have breakfast before going into the park for Sossusvlei Excursion which includes Dune 45, Deadvlei, Hiddenvlei, and Big Daddy. The tour guide will have regular stops to let clients take pictures and have some exposure to the Dunes.

Included Activities

• Sossusvlei Excursion ( Deadvlei, Big Daddy, Dune 45, Sossusvlei

Overnight & Sossus Oasis Campsite

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

Another day, you will do great activity in Windhoek is the Namibia Craft Center, a clean and safe covered market with dozens of independent vendors selling the work of thousands of artists around the country. You’ll find a range of items from African drums and woodcarvings, as well as elegant Swakara garments and Namibian gemstones. In addition to the stalls, there’s also a bookstore, an art gallery, and a popular café that focuses on local ingredients for breakfast and lunch. For dinner, you can choose between several cuisines.

Included activities

• Visits to the museum

Overnight & Arebbusch Camping

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

After breakfast at your lodge outside of Etosha National Park, you’ll make the drive south to the Okonjima Private Game Reserve (144 miles/232 km). This beautiful area is at the heart of Namibia and is surrounded by the sandstone Omboroko Mountains.

The landscape is home to an array of indigenous African wildlife and birds, which makes it the perfect place to take photos. Upon arrival at Okonjima, enjoy a relaxing lunch and then choose between guided activities in the game reserve offered by your camp.

Included Activities

• Game drives in search of elusive leopards and guided bush walks

Overnight & Okonjima Plains Camp

After breakfast at your lodge outside of Etosha National Park, you’ll make the drive south to the Okonjima Private Game Reserve (144 miles/232 km). This beautiful area is at the heart of Namibia and is surrounded by the sandstone Omboroko Mountains.

The landscape is home to an array of indigenous African wildlife and birds, which makes it the perfect place to take photos. Upon arrival at Okonjima, enjoy a relaxing lunch and then choose between guided activities in the game reserve offered by your camp.

Included activities

• Game drives in search of elusive leopards and guided bush walks

Overnight & Okonjima Plains Camp

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

Etosha East Located in North-western Namibia, Etosha East is a protected sanctuary in the eastern part of the world-renowned Etosha National Park, known as one of the most accessible game reserves in Southern Africa.

Etosha East boasts vast open plains scattered with semi-arid savannah grasslands dotted with watering holes and secluded bush camps. An impressive 5000-square kilometer Etosha salt pan makes up a large area of the eastern side of the park and can even be seen from space.

This remote area teems with abundant wildlife such as lions, elephants, black rhinos, and giraffes, as well as a variety of birdlife featuring flamingos, ostriches, eagles, hornbills, and owls.

Included Activities

• Game Drive

Overnight & Namutoni

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

After breakfast, you’ll have the entire day to spend in Etosha National Park. Before you set out on your adventure, consult your guide and animal sightings book to determine the current movement of animals in the area to optimize your game-viewing experience.

Detailed maps of the park are also available at each resort curio shop and filling station. In the heart of the park is the Etosha pan, meaning a place of dry water, an extensive flat depression of about 3,107 square feet (947 m). This great white expanse is a place of shimmering mirages; seeing large herds of game in this setting makes Etosha a unique experience in Africa.

Included Activities

• Half day or full day Game Drive

Overnight & Okaukuejo Camp

Basis

Dinner, Bed and Breakfast

Guest will have breakfast and take off to Palmwag which is a nature reserve idyllically located along a palm-lined tributary of the Uniab River, halfway between Swakopmund and Etosha, providing an ideal base from which to see the sights of the Kunene region or embark on one of the many local hiking trails. Water is scarce in this area, so the river’s presence often lures elephants closer to the camps.

 Included Activities

• Game Drive

Optional Activities

• Visit to Himba Tribe

Overnight & Palmwag Campsite

Basis

Full Board – Dinner, Bed, Breakfast and Lunch

Twyfelfontein Set in the Kunene Region of northwestern Namibia, Twylfelfontein is a spectacularly scenic area, featuring one of the largest and most important concentrations of rock art in Africa. The name ‘Twyfelfontein’ translates to ‘Fountain of Doubt’, which refers to the perennial spring situated in the impressive Huab valley flanked by the slopes of a sandstone table mountain.

It was this spring that attracted Stone Age hunters over six thousand years ago, and it was during this time that an extensive group of rock engravings and paintings were produced. Visitors can look forward to basing themselves at some wonderfully shady campsites along the Aba-Huab riverbed while exploring over thirty different sites of these sacred records of ritual practices relating to traditional hunter-gatherer communities.

Included Activities

• Damara Living Museum, Rock engravings, Burn Mountain & Organ Pipes Geological Landscape & Desert Elephants

Overnight & Madisa Campsite

Basis

Full Board – Dinner, Bed, Breakfast and Lunch

The last day of your Namibia trip. You will be brought back with a shuttle service to the airport.