Morning arrival into Windhoek.
Your driver will meet you and transfer you to your hotel. Note that your room is expected to be ready from 2pm - you're welcome to use the public areas until you're able to access your room. Spend the day at leisure.
Overnight Olive Exclusive in a Junior Suite - Bed & Breakfast
Bed & Breakfast
Check out and transfer to Windhoek Airport for your flight to Sossusvlei - departs 10:30am / arrives 11:30am.
Your ranger will meet you on arrival and transfer you to the lodge. Settle in ahead of lunch and the afternoon activity. Return to camp for a sumptuous dinner.
Overnight Sossusvlei Desert Lodge - Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected drinks and lodge activities
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected drinks and lodge activities
Enjoy the activities available at your camp:
Quad Bike Excursions
Set out on a quad bike trail through the dunes, led by an experienced guide. Enjoy the solitude and majesty of the desert as the trail winds over the dunes and rocky outcrops. As the day winds to a close, stop to enjoy a chilled sundowner as a dazzle of stars slowly comes to full, blazing life in the velvety night sky.
Nature Drives
Set off on a scenic drive to the fascinating petrified dunes, a frozen landscape of endless undulating waves or choose to explore the massive boulders of Bushman’s Koppies, haphazardly strewn one on top of the other like a giant’s building blocks. Stop to admire the thousand hues of a desert sunset before returning to the lodge in the evening. Scenic drives offer an opportunity to encounter a variety of desert-adapted animals such as gemsbok, zebra, springbok, bat-eared fox, aardwolf, caracal and jackal.
Star Gazing
The lodge’s observatory provides the ideal place to gaze in awe at the wonders of the clear desert sky, with the resident astronomer on hand to point out the brightest and most beautiful constellations.
Desert Activities
Scenic drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles on the NamibRand Nature Reserve. Closed air conditioned vehicle excursions to Sossusvlei and the Sesriem Canyon. Guided nature walks and marked hiking trails. Stargazing from the lodge's sophisticated observatory and hot air ballooning and scenic flights over the desert (at an additional cost) are all examples of some of the activities available.
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected drinks and lodge activities
Enjoy the activities on offer from the lodge.
On a 3 night stay, you can enjoy a complimentary hot air balloon safari.
Sossusvlei Hot Air Ballooning
As the sun’s first rays peek over scarlet sand dunes, the hot air balloon drifts slowly upward revealing the undulating landscapes of Sossusvlei. This soul-satisfying journey offers excellent photographic opportunities and lifelong memories!
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected drinks and lodge activities
Enjoy the activities available at the lodge.
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected drinks and lodge activities
Check out and transfer to the airstrip for your flight to Doro Nawas via Swakopmund - departs 9:50am / arrives 12:05pm. From here, it's a short 10 minute flight to your camp.
Your ranger will meet you at the airstrip and transfer you the short distance to your camp. Check in and settle in to your rooms ahead of the afternoon activity.
Return to camp for an open-air dinner under the stars.
Overnight Damaraland Camp - Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Enjoy twice daily activities from camp.
Morning and afternoon game drives are offered. Large game is not concentrated year-round here, with the natural cycle of rainfall dictating the seasonal movement of wildlife along the Huab River but there are desert-adapted elephant and other wildlife to be seen.
Engage with communities of the area and visit the Bergsig School. Discover the unique heritage of the local peoples, which include Nama-Damara, Herero, Owambo, and the displaced Riemvasmakers of South Africa.
Enjoy guided nature walks. Learn more about the geology of Damaraland or of the unique plants, birds and reptiles of this area.
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Damaraland Camp in the Torra Conservancy exists within one of the driest, most desolate regions in all of Africa. In this arid environment the ceaseless processes of life revolve around harnessing the near non-existent water in the most economical way possible.
Obviously this scrub landscape cannot support vast, concentrated herds of wildlife, but it nevertheless boasts a varied and breathtaking assortment of desert-adapted species around Damaraland Camp. The Torra Conservancy supports healthy populations of rare desert-adapted elephant and some black rhino. Gemsbok (oryx), kudu, springbok, Hartman's mountain zebra, southern giraffe, lion, cheetah, and spotted and brown hyena also live in the area. Birding is excellent, with over 240 species recorded.
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Transfer to the airstrip for your flight to the Skeleton Coast via Doro Nawas - the flight departs 11:20am - arrives 1:25pm. Your ranger will meet you on arrival and transfer you to the camp - enjoy lunch and settle in to your rooms.
The afternoon activity is followed by a sumptuous dinner back at camp.
Overnight Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp - Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
A diverse range of activities showcase the fascinating landscapes of the northern Palmwag Concession and the Skeleton Coast – including the wildlife within these areas.
Game drives
Nature drives showcase the magnitude of the landscape and offer the best possibilities of seeing desert-adapted wildlife. Morning or afternoon drives are available as well as full-day excursions.
Nature walks
Nature walks from camp take in the magnificent surrounds as well as glimpse the vestiges of who dwelt here hundreds of years ago: the Strandlopers (Beachcombers). It is also a good opportunity to study the smaller creatures and the fascinating plant life of the concession.
Skeleton Coast excursion
On a stay of three nights (or more) full-day excursions to the Skeleton Coast are offered. The fascinating 4x4 trip to the coast takes you via the wilderness and wildlife of the Hoanib River and floodplain, the dune fields and Klein Oasis, while the Skeleton Coast itself reveals a rocky coastline with its huge Cape fur seal colony and a few shipwreck remains. Weather dependent, a scenic flight back to camp offers a magnificent perspective of your journey from the air.
Day trips to Desert Oases
Day trips to Klein Oase and Auses Spring can be organised. These oases are a fascinating respite from the dry surrounds of the desert and offer the chance of seeing wildlife coming to drink as well as plenty of birdlife. These full-day trips are done in our semi-closed game drive vehicles, with a stop for a picnic at a scenic spot along the way.
Interaction with wildlife researchers
Presentations and interaction with wildlife researchers at the Hoanib Research Centre are on offer when researchers are in camp. These cover all current research being supported at Hoanib, in particular the vital work being done by Dr Flip Stander and his team on the unique desert-adapted lion.
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp’s location – close to the Skeleton Coast and within the true Namib Desert – is home to a rich diversity of wildlife, boasting the Kaokoveld’s best viewing of desert-adapted wildlife and access to vast, remote and isolated wilderness.
Almost miraculously it seems, in this stark environment, enormous elephant thrive along with giraffe, lion and brown hyaena. Gemsbok (oryx), springbok, steenbok, scrub hare, and inquisitive ground squirrel are also seen. Entirely different to the rugged mountains and valleys inland, the Skeleton Coast hosts Cape fur seals in their thousands along with black-backed jackals and brown hyaena.
Birds are equally diverse, with regular endemics like Rüppell's korhaan, Benguela long-billed lark and lark-like bunting. Towards the coast, the bird community changes and tractrac chat can be seen, as well as jaegers and skuas found around the seal colonies.
Fully Inclusive of all meals, selected beverages and lodge activities
Enjoy a leisurely breakfast and check out.
Transfer to the airstrip for your flight to Doro Nawas and onwards to Windhoek, departs 10:50am - arrives 1:55pm. Your driver will collect you and transfer you to your hotel - spend the afternoon at leisure.
Overnight Olive Exclusive in a Junior Suite - Bed & Breakfast
Bed & Breakfast
Enjoy breakfast this morning and check out.
Transfer to Windhoek Airport in time for your onward flight arrangements.
BON VOYAGE!
