Roaming Namibia: A Self-Drive Adventure Across Wild Landscapes

After arrival at the international airport, and collecting your hire vehicle, you proceed via mountainous terrain to Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, which has an Afro-European air and peaceful atmosphere. In the evening enjoy typical Namibian cuisine in one of the numerous restaurants in the city.

Travelling south after breakfast, you will soon see the red sand of the Kalahari interspersed with yellow grasses, shepherd’s trees and acacia’s.

Your lodge is situated on a private game reserve where Oryx, Springbok, Zebra, and a variety of smaller game species abound.

In the late afternoon experience,the Kalahari and its symbiotic components on a sundowner/nature drive(optional).

This morning you travel further south into endless plains dotted with dolerite hills and desert-adapted vegetation.

Visit the quiver tree forest at Keetmanshoop, before arriving at your lodge, situated close to the Fish River Canyon.

Tomorrow, after breakfast, travel a short distance to the magnificent Fish River Canyon.

Enjoy this natural phenomenon, the second largest of its kind on Earth, with its awesome splendour and adapted fauna and flora on a scenic walk along the ridge of the canyon.

After the visit travel back to your lodge, where you can enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

Your journey continues past Aus and down the open plains of the Great Escarpment to Lüderitz.

En route see if you can spot the wild horses of the Namib, and, once in Lüderitz, enjoy a scenic drive to Diaz Point, site of Bartholomew Dias’ landing in 1488.

This morning visit the “ghost town” Kolmanskop, the remnant of a bustling diamond town that flourished here from 1908 to 1950.

Travelling north, your next stop is situated in a more densely vegetated area along the foot of the stunning Tiras Mountains.

After breakfast you travel along stretches of grass plains interspersed with huge mountain ranges into the area of Sossusvlei, where you lodge is situated. En route, you may choose to visit Duwisib castle.

At your lodge, you have the rest of the day at leisure.

The next day calls for an early start, as you will forever remember the picture of a sunrise over mighty dunes in the Namib Desert.

Gaze at the bright splash of sun-baked sand combined with the mighty play of shadows cast onto the lay side of dunes.

After taking a walk along or even up some of the majestic dunes, travel back to your lodge.

Stop at the Sesriem Canyon; a 30-meter-deep gauge eroded into the desert floor by the forces of the mighty Tsauchab River.

Today you travel via the Namib Naukluft Park to Swakopmund, a tranquil coastal town situated between the Namib Desert and the Atlantic Ocean.

Visit the Welwitschia plains en route and the aptly named Moon landscape (permit required), two of the attractions during this scenic drive.

In Swakopmund, you will have the option of participating in some of the adventurous activities on offer. These could include scenic flights, dolphin cruises, quad biking, parasailing, dune boarding and parachuting.

Departing the coastal town of Swakopmund, you travel east towards the picturesque Erongo Mountain Range.

Travelling past the Spitzkoppe, you have the opportunity of visiting an authentic village of the San community living here.

At the lodge, you have enough time to spend at leisure beside the sparkling pool or explore the small town of Omaruru and its surrounds.

Experience the magical sunset around a fireplace and marvel at the African sky while sipping your favourite Namibian Sundowner.

Today head into the Damaraland, one of the least populated and most geologically diverse areas in Africa. This harsh, rocky environment is home to the elusive desert elephant, the black rhino and free-roaming antelope species.

Visit Twyfelfontein, a UNESCO heritage site where Bushman communities engraved and painted over 2.500 pictures some 6.000 years ago! This excursion can be followed with a visit to the nearby Living Museum of the Damara.

You can also stop at the Petrified Forest. The geological phenomenon found here depicts the creation and metamorphosis of wood into stone amongst some of the oldest landmasses on Earth.

Here you can also see the Welwitschia mirabilis plant–the oldest living desert plant on Earth

You then proceed to your lodge for overnight.

Your destination today is the wildlife heaven of Namibia-the Etosha National Park.

After a relaxed breakfast, you can visit a traditional Himba village and meet these proud and statuesque people.

The Himba still adhere to their traditional values and cultures and are one of the last genuinely nomadic people on Earth.

Travel further north to the Etosha National Park, which, with its numerous water holes, is home to the array of 114 different animals and 340 different bird species that thrive here.

Before checking into your lodge located on the border of the Etosha National Park, you can already enter the park for your first game viewing excursion.

Safari! You have the entire two days available for extensive game viewing experiences in one of Africa’s top wildlife reserves.

The Etosha National Park surrounds a parched salt desert known as the Etosha Pan and is home to 4 of the Big Five-elephant, lion, leopard and rhino.

The park’s water holes support a diversity of mammals and birds, including species such as black-faced impala, cheetah, and Namibia’s smallest antelope, the Damara dik-dik.

Shortly before sunset, you travel back to your lodge.

Etosha Village – Breakfast, Dinner

Optional Activities

• Guided Game Drives

• Sundowner Drives

• Sunrise Guided Walk

• Stargazing

• Boma Dinner Experience

Departing the Etosha National Park Region you today travel through the main agricultural and cattle farming region of Namibia.

In Tsumeb, you can visit the local museum depicting the mining history of this town as well as a few artifacts from the souring areas representing the colonial past of this region. At your lodge, you have time to explore the diverse wildlife on an optional guided nature drive or numerous scenic walking trails.

After a hearty breakfast, you travel back to Windhoek or the international airport, where you return your vehicle and your tour ends.

Opportunity if time allows to browse in one of the large craft markets.