Pick up your hire car at the airport and drive to Sossusvlei, a journey time of about 4 hours. If you only arrive late then we can arrange for you to sleep in Windhoek for the first night instead.
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Get up early and visit the Namib Naukluft National park with its fantastic red dunes, Deadvlei, Sossusvlei and Sesriem Canyon.
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Drive to Swakopmund, a journey time of about 6 hours. Stop to see the famous moon landscape just before Swakopmund and have a look for Welwitschia. Stay in Swakopmund for 2 nights.
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Explore the little coastal town on foot and add on one of the many adventure activities like a catamaran dolphin cruise, a Living Desert Tour, quad biking, sand boarding, sky diving, fat tire biking,... In the evening go for a traditional german meal.
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Drive to Twyfelfontein, a journey time of about 4 hours.
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Wonder off and explore the rock paintings, the organ pipes, the petrified forest and the burnt mountain.
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Drive to Damaraland, a journey time of about 4 hours. Stay here for 3 nights at Khowarib Lodge.
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Prebook a rhino tracking game drive and go in search of the desert elephants.
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Drive back south again and enter Etosha National Park through the western Galton Gate. Drive on your first game drive transfer all the way to Okaukuejo rest camp, famous for its busy water whole.
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Game drive with your own vehicle.
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Book a night game drive from the camp, to see nocturnal species.
Game drive through the east of park. Stay one night just outside Van Lindequist Gate, at Mushara Bush Camp.
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Drive to Okonjima Nature Reserve, a journey time of about 4 hours. Prebook an afternoon leopard tracking activity.
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Drive to Windhoek, a journey time of about 3 hours. Drop of your car, before you get on your flight.
Departure.