10 Day Tour

tour description

10 Day Namibia TOP Attractions ~ we recommend this tour to Travelers who although may not be able to book an extended visit, yet would still appreciate to experience the fullness of Namibia: Namib Desert, shores of Atlantic with famous Skeleton Coast, Damaraland with its breathtaking landscape and disappearing Damara Culture, and an exceptional wildlife and nature of Etosha National Park. Itinerary neatly wraps 10 days offering wonderful possibilities for scenic, landscape and wildlife photography, both for avid professionals and amateur photographers.


  • Tour may be adapted and tailor-made to mix-accommodation at mid-range and/or luxury standards. Guests who wish to make part or the whole tour as a 'fly-in experience' are welcome to contact us for an individual quote.

  • You are welcome to book private or solo tour, small group tour with min. 2 up to max. 12 participants; families with children are welcome.

  • We accept 'last minute bookings' and offer flexible departures any day of the week.


Duration
10 Days
Countries
Namibia
Categories
4x4 Tours, Birding, Desert, Ethnical/Cultural, Geology, Photography, Unesco World Heritage, Wildlife, Landscape

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Prices Per Person

Low Season
1 November to 30 June
High Season
1 July to 31 October
Camping NAD40,200.- EUR~2,158.- NAD44,990.- EUR~2,416.-
Mid-range Lodge Accommodation
Meals: B, D
NAD55,400.- EUR~2,974.- NAD57,800.- EUR~3,103.-
Mid-range Lodge Accommodation
Meals: B, L, D + mineral water in the car
NAD61,250.- EUR~3,289.- NAD63,250.- EUR~3,396.-
Mid-range Lodge Single Supplement NAD13,750.- EUR~738.- NAD13,750.- EUR~738.-
Luxury Lodge Accommodation
Meals: B, L, D + mineral water during the tour
NAD153,450.- EUR~8,239.- NAD163,950.- EUR~8,802.-
Luxury Lodge Single Supplement NAD28,450.- EUR~1,527.- NAD28,450.- EUR~1,527.-
Optional Private Tour Supplement Per Tour NAD55,000.- EUR~2,953.- NAD55,000.- EUR~2,953.-
* 50% discount for children 12 years old and younger.

Tour Map

Detailed Itinerary

9AM pick-up from your accommodation in Windhoek and en route south-west to Sossusvlei via scenic Spreetshoogte Pass. Lunch stop at famous Solitaire - oasis in the Namib Desert. In the afternoon arrival at the lodge, rest and dinner.

Meals: as selected.

Accommodation 2 nights in the Namib Desert at:

  • Camping - Sesriem Campsite or similar.
  • Mid-range Lodge – Elegant Desert Lodge or similar.
  • Luxury Lodge – Dead Valley Lodge or similar.


Distance: 350 km (gravel road).

Duration: 5 hours with stops and lunch break.


Early morning before sunrise, 70 km scenic drive via Sesriem Gate to Sossusvlei – place of the highest dunes in the world, the 'Namib Sand Sea' - UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

Option of climbing picturesque Dune 45 to experience beauty and vastness of fascinating orange-colored landscape. After the climb, 5km off-road, deep sand drive to visit surreal Deadvlei, a place of vast clay pan and dried-up, ancient acacias standing silent in an impressive tri-colored landscape. After lunch visit to Sesriem Canyon and Elim Dune. 

Evening: dinner, time for rest, relaxation and star-gazing.


Optional Activities:

  • Hot-air Balloon flight over the dunes;


Meals: as selected.

Distance: around 250 km (tar, gravel and sand roads)

Adventure starts after breakfast, traveling through the Namib-Naukluft Park to Swakopmund, passing by canyons and fascinating rock formations. Magnificent landscape of the Namib reaches as far as the eye can see. Chance to spot grazing wildlife: oryx and springbok, mountain zebras, giraffes and world’s largest, flightless birds – ostriches. En route, celebrating crossing of the Tropic of Capricorn (famous geographical line) – time for leg-stretching and memorable pictures! On arrival at the coast, short visit to Walvis Bay lagoon to observe flocks of Greater and Lesser Flamingos along many other marine bird species attracted to this region by rich nutrient waters of the Benguela Current.


Meals: only breakfast or breakfast + mineral water. Please note: at the coast, lunch and dinner is at own cost.

Accommodation 2 nights in Swakopmund at: 

  • Backpacker/camping- Amanpuri Travelers Lodge or similar.
  • Mid-range Lodge – Alte Brucke Resort or similar.
  • Luxury Lodge – Strand Hotel or similar.


Distance: 300 km (gravel road).

Duration: 5 hours with stops.


Today you are welcome to choose from variety of the coastal optional activities:


Recommended activities (price on request):

  • Visit to the ‚lunar landscape’ of the Moon Valley and Welwitchia mirabilis trails - botanic attraction, known as the ‚living fossil’; considered to be one of the oldest and most original plants on Earth.
  • Quadbike ride into the dunes and rolling hills of the coastal Namib.
  • Swakopmund City Tour with visit to the Crystal Gallery.
  • Snake Park.
  • Open-air, street-craft-market.
  • Bicycle tour of the Mondesa township.
  • Skydiving;
  • Fishing offshore.
  • Sand-boarding;
  • Eco-kayaking with the seals;
  • Early morning Marine Dolphin Cruise may be combined with afternoon Sandwich Harbor excursion as a full day activity.


Meals: only breakfast or breakfast + mineral water. Please note: at the coast, lunch and dinner is at own cost.

Distance: 150 km (gravel and tar road).

Duration: 5 hours with stops and lunch break.

Traveling via coastal road leading 150km north to Cape Cross and Cape Fur Seal colony. After observing huge family of aquatic mammals, turning east into scenic region of Damaraland, traveling towards mountainous Brandberg Massif, one of the most magnificent and majestic places of Namibia. On the way, passing by local Damara villages in the communal areas, while there is chance to spot ostriches, jackals, hyenas and springboks.


Meals: as selected

Accommodation 1 night in Damaraland at:

  • Camping - White Lady Campsite or similar.
  • Mid-range Lodge – White Lady Lodge or similar.
  • Luxury Lodge – Mowani Mountain Camp or similar.


Distance: 350 km (gravel road).

Duration: around 8 hrs.

Discovering beauty of Twyfelfontein rock engravings, UNESCO World Heritage site – one of the largest concentration of petroglyphs in Africa, admiring most interesting petroglyphs, out of over 2500 works, created centuries ago in the rusty-orange rocks by the San people - Bushmen inhabitants of these region. The site forms a coherent, extensive and high-quality record of ritual practices relating to hunter-gatherer communities in this part of southern Africa and eloquently illustrates the links between the ritual and economic practices and daily life of hunter-gatherers.


Recommended optional activity: 

  • Visit to Damara Village 'Living Museum' to experience disappearing culture of Damara people;
  • Rock formations: Organ Pipes and Burnt Mountain


Meals: as selected.

Accommodation 1 night in Damaraland at:

  • Camping - Desert Elephant Campsite or similar.
  • Mid-range Lodge – Damaraland Lodge or similar.
  • Luxury Lodge – Mowani Mountain Camp or similar.


Distance: 350 km (gravel road, including 160 km salt road).

Duration: around 8 hrs. with stops and lunch break.

Wildlife and Nature Sanctuary! We are on the way to Etosha National Park – treasure of Namibia, considered one of the most loved and most visited game parks of Africa! We are welcomed by wild animals and white sand of the plains. During afternoon game ride, admiring variety of magnificent animals, among them big mammals: antelopes, giraffes, zebras as well as huge elephants (largest in Africa), rhinos (black and white), lions, leopards, cheetah and hyenas (spotted and brown) roaming through the bush.

Arrival at Ombika Gate (former Anderson's) in the afternoon, plenty of time for afternoon game drive.


Optional activity:

  • En route to Etosha, visit to Petrified Forest;


Meals: as selected.

Accommodation 3 nights inside the park at:

  • Camping - Okaukuejo Campsite or similar (inside the park)
  • Mid-range Lodge – Halali Resort or similar (inside the park)
  • Luxury Lodge – Etosha Oberland Lodge or similar (outside the park);

 

Distance: 300 km (tarred and gravel roads)

Duration: around 4 hours with stops.

Full day UNLIMITED game drives in Etosha NP - from sunrise till sunset.


Meals: as selected.

Distance: 200 km gravel roads of Etosha

Duration: Full day unlimited game drive, sunrise till sunset.

Full day UNLIMITED game drives in Etosha NP, from sunrise till sunset.


Meals: as selected.

Distance: 200 km gravel roads of Etosha.

Duration: Full day unlimited game drive, sunrise till sunset.

After leisurely breakfast ‚farewell’ to Etosha, traveling south to Windhoek, capital of Namibia. Enough time for last shopping for gifts, souvenirs and curios at Okahandja local, open-air craft market and chance for last photos of beautiful African landscape. 

 

Meals: as selected.

Distance: around 450 km (tarred roads).

Duration: 6 hrs including stop for lunch and shopping.

 

 

We wish you a safe journey filled with warm memories and happy returns to Namibia!

Included

Transport, fuel, 9 x nights accommodation and reservations, meals as selected, national park entrance fees, full-day unlimited game drives in Etosha National Park (sunrise till sunset) in the provided tour vehicle, experienced tour guide for the entire tour, airport transfers within the tour dates.

Not Included

International flights ‚to/from’ Namibia, individually extended accommodation, additional transfers (airport transfers beyond the tour dates, which we may arrange at euro 20pp), individual travel and medical insurance, lunches and water, if not selected, drinks and alcoholic beverages, optional activities, gratuities and tips, trip extensions, visa to Namibia (if required).

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