10-Day Namibia Desert and Safari Tour with Sossusvlei and Etosha

1. Meet and greet after a short briefing.
2. Set off to explore Windhoek city.
3. Enjoy dinner at a restaurant at your own expense.

Overnight at the hotel.

• After breakfast at the lodge, we head out.
• Leave the city and transfer to the Namib Desert.
• Enter the heart of the Namib Desert, taking in the ever-changing landscape, red dunes, vast plains, and towering mountains.
• Enjoy lunch en route.
• We arrive at our lodge late afternoon outside the Namib Rand Nature Reserve.
• Savour a delightful dinner while enjoying the evening sky.

Highlights: The scenic views en route and the desert lodge.

• Set off early and enter Sesriem Canyon and the awe-inspiring red Sossusvlei dunes, reputedly the highest in the world.
• Transfer into the heart of the dunes to spend some time climbing these spectacular mountains of sand.
• Take a 4x4 transfer into Sossusvlei and Deadvlei, a clay pan with dark, dead camel thorn trees, and explore these truly unique sites on foot before the 4x4 takes us back to our vehicle.
• Have lunch following the visit to Sesriem Canyon.

Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Cross through the Namib-Naukluft National Park and via Kuiseb Canyon.
• Make your way to the port town of Walvis Bay.
• Then drive on to Swakopmund, where German influence is still evident in the town's buildings and some restaurant food.
• Spend two nights in this town.

• Have breakfast at the lodge.
• Enjoy a full day in Swakopmund, allowing us to partake in the town's optional activities, including skydiving, quad biking, dune boarding, desert tours, boat cruises, and cultural tours.

• After breakfast at the lodge, travel along the Skeleton Coast, a stretch of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean with scattered shipwrecks.
• Visit Cape Cross, a spectacular breeding ground for Cape fur seals, home to over 100,000 seals.
• Have lunch on the way as you travel further inland, journeying through the vast open desert to the iconic Brandberg Mountain, the highest mountain in Namibia, known for its ancient rock art.
• Spend the night at the mountain's base, hoping to encounter the rare desert elephants and hyenas.

• Go to the breathtaking Damaraland region, home to the Damara people.
• Along the way, visit the Organ Pipes, which were formed about 150 million years ago.
• Also, visit the ancient rock art at Twyfelfontein before reaching the camp.

Overnight stay at a camp.

• After breakfast, go further north to enter the renowned Etosha National Park.
• Spend two days exploring the park with extensive game drives, visiting little waterholes, exploring, and letting our senses roam free while making the most of our time there.

• In the morning, pack up for your departure.
• Drive to Windhoek with lunch en route.
• Upon arrival back in the capital city, the tour ends in the late afternoon.