Essential Namibia Safari
Safari Quick Facts |
| Safari Price: £ 1,869 |
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| Safari Starts:
Windhoek |
Safari Ends: Windhoek
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Number of Days:
8 |
| Countries visited: Namibia |
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Booking Code: AZU |
Safari Price
Includes:
7 nights semi participatory camping
2 nights guesthouse
All breakfasts
4 lunches
5 dinners.
7 nights semi participatory camping
2 nights guesthouse
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Safari Price
Excludes:
All optional excursions
Visas
Meals / Drinks unless otherwise stated in the itinerary. |
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Namibia offers a huge range of landscapes and wildlife. This trip
is an 8 day adventure visiting the must see highlights of this spectacular
country.
We spend time in Etosha National Park where we can enjoy evenings
by a waterhole and during the day we will look for the plentiful
wildlife in the park. The desert landscape is magnificent and we
can climb the world’s highest sand dunes at Sossusvlei and
enjoy the rugged beauty of the Namib Naukluft Park. Our trip ends
with a visit to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, where you can get
close to these fascinating big cats and learn about the efforts
to save the fastest land mammal on earth.
Essential Namibia Safari Detailed Itinerary
| Day 1: |
Windhoek |
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The group will stop in Windhoek to buy provisions
and then we leave Windhoek and head southwest through the
spectacular scenery of the Namib-Naukluft Park to Sesriem.
This National Park, one of the largest in the world, is home
to one of the driest and oldest deserts on earth. It contains
the finest desert scenery in Africa, if not in the world,
with towering jagged rock formations and an incredible lunar
landscape. |
| Day 2: |
Sesriem |
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We have a full day in the Namib Desert and
get the opportunity to visit the Sossusvlei dunes, one of
the great sights of Africa. We get up early to watch the early
morning light over the dunes and there is then time to climb
some of the highest sand dunes in the world. Alternatively
just enjoy the changing colours on the towering dunes from
lower down as the sun gets up. If we're lucky we may see gemsbok
or ostrich among the dunes, an irresistibly photogenic scene!
In the afternoon we visit Sesriem Canyon and then drive to
our campsite which is an hour away. |
| Day 3: |
Swakopmund |
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A long drive through Namib-Naukluft Park to
Swakopmund, visiting Walvis Bay en route for lunch to see
the local flamingos |
| Day 4: |
Swakopmund |
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Today is spent in and around Swakopmund - a
German colonial resort town. There is time to go fishing or
laze on the beach, or alternatively just enjoy a cream tea
and a seafood dinner along the front. There are various optional
activities available; you can go walking among the dunes outside
the town or go on a dolphin-watching trip. For those of you
looking for a more exciting option there is the opportunity
to try sand boarding or quad-biking on the dunes (optional
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| Day 5: |
Etosha National Park |
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Today we drive to Etosha National Park. Etosha
is a huge park of mixed forest and grassland centered around
a large salt pan. Etosha is home to a great variety and number
of game, which is easy to find as the animals congregate at
different times around the waterholes. There are waterholes
next to the excellent campsites, and it is not uncommon for
us to spend all night watching a gala performance of animals:
wildebeest, zebra, impala, springbuck, kudu, elephant, giraffe,
lion and even rhino are all common sights here. Take plenty
of film, camera memory and lots of patience and you will be
rewarded by one of the greatest game spectacles in Southern
Africa. Etosha is also a good place for birds, with plenty
of water birds on the pan (when filled with water), and weaverbirds
and hornbills in the trees. |
| Day 6: |
Etosha National Park |
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We spend a full day game driving in the National
Park. |
| Day 7: |
Otjiwarongwe |
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We have an early start to drive to Otjiwarongwe
and we visit the Cheetah Conservation Centre. You will have
the chance to meet the local residents, cheetahs who cannot
released back into the wild and visit the education centre
and museum. |
| Day 8: |
Windhoek |
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A drive of three hours or so brings us back
to Windhoek. In the afternoon we transfer to the airport for
the flight to London. Those not travelling with the group
to London will leave us during the day |
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