Arrive Windhowk where you will be met for transfer to the hotel for overnight. Dinner on own.
This morning following breakfast, transfer to the Windhoek Airport for your light aircraft flight to Geluk Airstrip in the heart of Sossusvlei and the Namib/Nauklift Desert. Here you will be met by your guide for transfer to the lodge for the next three days.
Enjoy twice daily activities on offer by the lodge and all meals.
*Note: If your flight arrives in Windhoek by 8:30AM on this day you will not need an overnight in Windhoek. The Wilderness Air flight departs from Hoseo Windhoek Airport at 10:30AM Daily.
Depart from Sossusvlei today for your flight to Damaraland and Desert Rhino Camp
Amongst rocky hills with scattered euphorbia, ancient welwitschia plants, scrubby vegetation and clumps of trees of the 450,000 hectare Palmwag Concession, lies Desert Rhino Camp. This region is marked for its tranquil, minimalist beauty, surprising wealth of arid-adapted wildlife and the largest free roaming black rhino population in Africa. Desert Rhino Camp functions as a collaborative effort between Wilderness Safaris and the Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) - an NGO that has been instrumental in the preservation of these rare, desert adapted black rhino. Having barely survived the slaughter of the '80s and '90s throughout other parts of Africa, the black rhino population has doubled since the formation of the SRT.
Set in a wide valley sometimes flush with grass, Desert Rhino Camp has 8 Meru-style canvas tents which sleep up to 16 guests. Raised from the ground on a wooden deck, each tent features an en-suite bathroom with a hand basin, flush toilet and bucket shower. Beds are made up with crisp, white linen and have two dark wood bedside tables with wicker reading lamps. An extension of the deck functions as a front verandah and each room has an electronic combination safe, a loud emergency, insect repellant spray & mosquito.
Enjoy a last morning activity before departing for the airstrip this afternoon. The flight arrives in Windhoek at 1:30PM, so depending on the day an overnight may be required.
The Hotel Heinitzburg is in a lovely setting overlooking the cityscape. This evenings enjoy cocktails (sundowners) on the terrace as you watch the sunset. Dinner is available to pre-book and include if preferred.
This morning depart very early from the hotel for your flight via Johannesburg to Maun. (Flight departs at 6:30AM).
On arrival in Maun, proceed thru customs and immigration formalities into the arrivals hall where you will meet your pilot from Wilderness Air for the light aircraft flight into the Okavango Delta.
With the current water levels being low, Qorokwe Camp offers permanent water so you will have the option of day & night game drives, boat safaris, mokoros and walks over the next few days.
Morning activity before departing by lite aircraft to the Linyanti Concession.
Kings Pool Camp is located in the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, a vast private concession in the northern part of Botswana, on the western boundary of Chobe National Park. The accommodation here is luxurious, the wildlife spectacular. Kings Pool Camp overlooks the Linyanti River and the oxbow-shaped. Raised walkways allow animals to wander freely through the camp to and from the water. The lounge, dining room and pub are under thatch; there is a pool and an open-air 'kgotla' for dining under the stars.
The Linyanti area has a large wildlife resource with a wide variety of species, but it is most noted for its very large elephant population, which can reach enormous densities during the dry winter months. Other game is abundant, such as impala, lechwe, kudu, zebra, giraffe, buffalo and bushbuck, and their predators: lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog and spotted hyaena. Rarer species such as sable and roan antelope emerge from the woodlands during the dry season.
Wake up early to the sound of the bush, the hippo sound and fish eagle call. Your last morning activity lets you search for the Big Five and extensive wildlife in the region. Following breakfast return to the airstrip for your light aircraft flight to Maun.
Tour ends.
