$6,765 to $6,985 pp (USD)
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Arrival
Day 1
The Namibian Atlantic Coast
The Namibian Atlantic Coast
Your guide will pick you up from either the cruise ship, accommodation, or airport and transfer you to the nearby tourist town of Swakopmund. Depending on the time of arrival, you may stroll the city on your own at your own pace or relax in your hotel room with great views of the Atlantic Ocean. Various optional activities can be arranged with us at an extra cost before arrival. These include quad biking, sand boarding, scenic flights, moon landscape and Welwitschia Drive, Historical Township Tour, and sky diving. Your guide will host you for dinner at one of the renowned restaurants in town, for briefing about your activities and travel for the following days.
- Main Destination:
- Walvis Bay (City)
- Accommodation:
- Strand Hotel Swakopmund
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Explore the Central Skeleton Coast
Explore the Central Skeleton Coast
You'll have a full-day Shipwreck Sandwich Harbour Excursion today. You'll experience Namibia's central Skeleton Coast exposed to the stormy South Atlantic Ocean claiming numerous ships over past centuries. You'll combine the beauty and wildlife of the Kuiseb Delta and Sandwich Harbour, as you explore further South along the coastline to an area where the Namibian coast claimed another victim, the Shawnee, a transport tug that ran aground in foul weather on 16 February 1976 about few kilometers north of Conception Bay. Depending on the tides and weather, this excursion does go up to Conception Bay where one will see the Eduard Bohlen Shipwreck that got stranded in 1909 and old diamond camps with house ruins and mining equipment bear witness to a tough time that ended in the late 30s.
This is for those interested in experiencing the rugged beauty of the Namibian coastal landscape and seeing an actual shipwreck stuck high up on a beach in one of the world's most isolated places.
- Main Destination:
- Swakopmund (City)
- Accommodation:
- Strand Hotel Swakopmund
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Explore the Northern Skeleton Coast
Explore the Northern Skeleton Coast
You will embark on a half-day excursion, the Living Desert Tour. This is a 4 to 5-hour tour conducted by passionate and experienced desert specialists who are desert conservationists as well. If lucky, you might see the desert “Little Five”; Shovel-nosed Lizard, the Namib Sand Gecko, the Namaqua Chameleon, the Namib Desert Sidewinding Adder, and the Cartwheeling Spider (“Dancing White Lady”). You'll explore this unique biome with sneaky creatures that have adapted to living in harsh environments. These little creatures either camouflage or agility to fake deaths, help in serving food on the table, or avoid being someone’s meal somehow. After lunch, you will visit the Cape Cross Seal Reserve. This is a 60km2 Reserve and has the largest Seal Colony in the world, with numbers up to 240,000 at a given time. It could be the second-largest city in Namibia if these animals were humans!
You'll end your Namibian Skeleton experience with a dinner at one of the restaurants in Swakopmund.
- Main Destination:
- Swakopmund (City)
- Accommodation:
- Strand Hotel Swakopmund
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park
After breakfast, you will leave the coastal environment and drive inland to Etosha National Park. This is one of Namibia’s renowned National Parks, the Etosha. It is a 22 270 km2 park with 114 mammal species and over 350 bird species. Etosha means “Great White Place” in the local Oshindonga language, referring to the 4800 km2 salt pan that covers 23% of the park’s surface area. Mammals include Black and White Rhinoceros, lions, leopards, cheetahs, African elephants, plains and Hartmann’s mountain zebras, Southern giraffes, elands, gemsboks, African wild cats, Spotted and brown hyenas among other animals. You'll be in time for an afternoon game drive.
- Main Destination:
- Etosha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Etosha Oberland Lodge
Wildlife in Etosha NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park
You'll have a full-day game drive in Etosha, driving from the southern to the central parts of the park and checking game around waterholes. Being a semi-arid area, the park is mainly dependent on artificial waterholes and a small number of natural contact springs. Animals tend to be more concentrated around these waterholes.
- Main Destination:
- Etosha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Etosha Oberland Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Windhoek
Windhoek
En route to Windhoek, you will visit the Africat Foundation for a day visit. Founded in 1993, the AfriCat Foundation is primarily dedicated to the conservation of large carnivores. The Foundation lies on a 22,000-hectare Okonjima Private Game Reserve. Before lunch, you will visit the center and learn more about Namibia’s carnivores and their fight for survival and the Human-Wildlife Conflict challenges that face both man and carnivore. Both Okonjima and AfriCat are dedicated to creating conservation awareness through environmental education at all ages and levels, rehabilitation and reintroduction programs, and conducting constructive wildlife research. You'll get a chance to see the ambassador cheetahs during this tour.
In the capital city of Namibia, Windhoek, your guide will host you for dinner in one of the renowned restaurants in the city.
- Main Destination:
- Windhoek (City)
- Accommodation:
- The Weinberg
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Departure
Departure
This marks the end of the tour. You will be transferred to the airport or continue exploring the country.
- Main Destination:
- Hosea Kutako International Airport (Windhoek)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
