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This is our 3-Day Rhino Trekking Tour mainly focused on the White Rhinos at the Waterberg Plateau Park they are truly one of Africa’s most remarkable animals.
We invite you to experience these majestic creatures as they lumber about their natural habitat. Enjoy a trekking Safari on foot with highly experienced Guides who will lead you very close to them.
We depart from Windhoek to the Waterberg Plateau Park. After arrival at the Lodge, we have the opportunity to undertake a small walk in this unique area. Alternative you have the opportunity to participate on a Game drive at own leisure. We can spend the evening with a sundowner at the terrace of the Plateau and enjoy the stars over the Kalaharie desert.
Included activities game drive and sundowner at the terrace
Overnight & Waterberg Wilderness Lodge
Bed and Breakfast
Early morning after Breakfast you will be accompanied by your field Guide. We now depart by foot on an excursion to track the Rhinos in this region. You’re highly experienced Guide will explore with you this nature reserve on foot, at the Waterberg Mountain Plateau and will detect game such as oryx or red hartebeest, kudu or giraffe. You will even come face to face with rhino.
Included activities track the Rhinos by foot.
Overnight & Waterberg Wilderness Lodge
Bed and Breakfast
After a Relaxing Breakfast we depart back to Namibia’s Capital – Windhoek. Arrival around midday. We can take you to the Airport
Baboons live on the rocks around the plateau, the dense bush on the slopes is inhabited by Damara Dik-Dik (the smallest antelope species), klipspringer, kudu and leopard. The tree and shrub savannah of the plain below is home to giraffe, eland, oryx antelope and hartebeest, impala, blue wildebeest, zebra and springbok.
It is about 50 km long, up to 16 km wide and rises from the plains of the Omaheke, as this part of the Kalahari is known, to a height of up to 200 metres.
The underlying impermeable Omingonde layer slightly slopes from the northwest to the southeast. Absorbed water thus escapes at the south-eastern edge of the Waterberg in so-called layer springs. The Waterberg, i.e. Water Mountain, gets its name from these springs.
The plateau rises more than 200 metres above the surrounding plains with a width of between 8 and 16 kilometres and a length of about 49 kilometres from south-west to north-east. The average altitude of the plateau is between 1650 and 1700 meters above sea level.
The Waterberg area is well known for its archaeological finds dating to the Stone Age as well as evolutionary finds related to the origin of humans. There are also ruins of several Iron Age settlements and Bushmen rock paintings at Lapalala within the Waterberg.
As one of three major mountain ranges in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, the Waterberg Mountain Range, over 1 800 million years old and one of the oldest mountain ranges on the planet and believed to be the original home of the San based on rock painting evidence, also contributes to a major water catchment area.
Humans have been living at the Waterberg since prehistoric times because of the springs and game they found here. Explorers Francis Galton and Charles Andersson, who were the first Europeans to venture into the area in 1851, encountered San (Bushmen) and Damara.
It’s an infinitely accessible option for a malaria-free safari.
Waterberg Plateau Park is a national park in central Namibia encompassing the Waterberg Plateau, 68 km east of the town of Otjiwarongo. The Waterberg Plateau is a particularly prominent feature, elevated high above the plains of the Kalahari of Eastern Namibia.
The vegetation is dominated by different veld types, the two dominant forms being sour Bushveld and mixed Bushveld which are typical savanna vegetation types, as well as the Waterberg Moist Mountain Bushveld.