Panos Laskarakis (Photography Group) - 18 Days Namibia Private Photo Tour

After arrival at the airport you will meet your guide and then you will start your tour driving to Erindi old traders lodge. Our plan is to arrive early afternoon in time for afternoon game drive.

Today we will have a morning and afternoon game drive. Guests are treated to a world-class informative game drive. Roam the expansive landscape of the Erindi Game Reserve with a qualified and knowledgeable guide in the comfort of an open 4×4 vehicle. Drinks and snacks are provided on the drives (Old Traders Lodge only) so sit back, relax and feel part of Africa!

Today we will depart towards Etosha National Park. We will arrive in time for lunch. We will have a private campsite with our own private toilet and showers. We will camp here 2 nights.

Afternoon Private  game drive on the Onguma Game reserve.

Today we will spend the morning and afternoon in Etosha National Park with your guide.

We will pack up camp and move to a different camp inside the park. This day we spend most of it watching wildlife. A visit to a number of waterholes is high on the cards and we make a stop at the Etosha Pan, the “place of dry water”. The Pan is an extensive flat depression of about 5,000 km2. This great, white expanse is a place of shimmering mirages, and seeing large herds of game in this setting makes Etosha a unique experience in Africa.

Later in the evening you can visit the waterhole.

We will stay 2 nights at Halali campsite camping with our own toilets and showers.

Night Game drive with park ranger and open game viewer.

We will depart camp early morning in search of wildlife and return back to the camp for brunch. Later we will depart again on afternoon game drive until sunset.

Night game drive after dinner with park ranger and open game viewer.

Today we will pack up camp and move to the south west side of the Etosha National Park. We will do more game drives with all our equipment in the back trailer. We enter a area that is not so much travelled and will see more wildlife in the western part of Etosha. 

We will camp 1 night at Okaukeujo campsite. Here there is also a nice floodlit waterhole where you can sit at night to see animals come to drink.

This evening there will be another night game drive with the lodge guides and vehicle.

We make an early start and begin our day with a game drive before we leave the park and drive into the Desert Mountains of the Kaokoveld, one of the last true wildernesses of Southern Africa and home of the Himba people. In the afternoon we pay a visit to Oases village where we are going to meet the locals. A special guide is going to be available for the time we are there, the guide is going to translate for us and introduce us to this “tribe”. We are going to learn about marriage customs, traditional food and we will visit the “holy fire”. Tonight we will sleep in next to the Hoanib river in mobile camp. 

The Hoanib River Wild Camp is located near the Hoanib dry riverbed, in one of the most remote areas of Namibia. This is where the desert landscapes of the Kaokoland and the Skeleton Coast meet. The camp offers a relaxing oasis in the middle of nowhere.

In a country jam-packed with vast, spectacularly beautiful landscapes, Kaokoland may just be the most incredible of them all. Deep in north-western Namibia, the area is a melee of towering mountains, sand dunes, and huge expanses of desert, scattered with unique wildlife and nomadic Himba settlements. It’s also one of Namibia’s most remote and wild environments, and one that not many will get the chance to discover in a lifetime.

Discover the true magnitude and magic of Namibia and visit a place that not many will ever have the chance to explore…

This area is one of the best places to see desert adapted elephant, giraffe, lion, rhino, mountain zebra, and oryx.

Sip a G&T on your private veranda and contemplate the stark beauty of the landscape spread out all around you.

Learn more about the ground-breaking giraffe research that is being conducted in this remote corner of Namibia.

Spend time with local Herero people and learn a little of their fascinating way of life in such a harsh climate.

Embark on a guided nature walk and uncover the smaller flora and fauna of the desert.

We will depart continuing to the coast through the dry river bed. Having arrived at the coast we drive to Cape Cross and the seal colony with close views of thousands of fur seals. Tonight we may take the chance to sample one of the excellent restaurants in Walvisbay. The seafood in Walvisbay is superb. Your guide will offer to organize a group meal in a local restaurant for this evening. 

This morning you will join the Tommys Living desert tour and return around 12h00 . Then the afternoon  you will go on another afternoon sandwich harbor 4x4 tour until sunset time in the afternoon. Both tours will be private on a private basis.

Today we will continue inland again. On our way we may make a last short stop in Walvis Bay to say farewell to the flamingoes. Climbing up the mountains across the Gaub and Kuiseb passes and a spectacular, almost moon-like landscape we aim to arrive at our camp in the desert during the late afternoon. As we aim to end the day on a high, we make a short excursion to the nearby sand dunes to enjoy the sunset over the dunes and watch the colors glow and change on the mountains before going back for dinner around the campfire.

NB! we will stay 1 night inside the park at sesriem campsite.

An early start, to catch the soft light of the sunrise over the desert. We pass through the gate into the Namib Naukluft Park and continue towards Sossusvlei along distant sand dunes on both sides of the road. If resting is not your thing, worry less as we stop at the famous Dune 45. Those who feel fit may climb the dune and get a breathtaking view of the surrounding desert and dunes. After breakfast we will take a desert walk in the cool of the morning, with chance to see gemsboks, springboks, black-backed jackals and ostriches. As the day cools off in the afternoon we make a short excursion to Sesriem Canyon before we continue for a short drive to our new camp in the namibrand nature reserve where we will stay for 1 night only.

This afternoon and evening we will spend at the Namibrand Nature Reserve.

Today we will depart and drive towards  the Kanaan N/a’an ku sê Desert Retreat, situated on 33 000 hectares of unspoilt nature. Contrasting landscapes are never-ending, with rippled sand dunes glowing in the magical light of sunrise and sunset, mountain vistas perfectly framing breathtaking views, rocky outcrops studded with quiver trees and awe-inspiring savannah and desert vistas.

In the dedicated hands of the N/a’an ku sê team, the Kanaan N/a’an ku sê Desert Retreat focuses on the rehabilitation of the land to serve a purpose other than being a photographer’s paradise - conservation and protection of the wildlife and environment. This enchanting reserve borders the Namib Naukluft Park with its breath taking photogenic dune belt to the west, and the Tiras Mountains to the east, enhancing our captivating scenery.

Kanaan is home to free roaming kudu, springbok, ostrich, oryx, caracal, hyena, bat-eared fox and jackal, there is never a shortage of animal action in front of the camera.

This last night we will stay at the lodge in rooms.

Depart back to Windhoek through Spreetshoogte pass. We will arrive back in Windhoek around 14h30 pm. Do the covid-19 test and then your guide will drop you at your lodge , Naankuse just outside Windhoek. 

Today you will have a airport transfer back to the airport.