Day 1

Greater Windhoek

Staying at Na’an ku se Lodge

Arrive at Windhoek Airport, you are met by our representative and transferred to Na'ankuse. Located only 30-minutes from Hosea Kutako International Airport, the award-winning Naankuse Lodge offersa range of accommodation amidst a 3,200-hectare nature reserve. The lodge is a not-for-profit eco-tourism establishment, where all profits are plowed back into supporting our charitable projects under the Naankuse Foundation.

Check in and relax before the afternoon activity. Experience the untouched beauty of Namibia's Bushveld with a guided nature walk. Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, and scents of this extraordinary landscape. Back at the lodge on time for dinner and night.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 2

Okonjima Nature Reserve

Staying at Okonjima Luxury Bush Camp

After breakfast, transfer to the Care Rental agent to pick up the car rental. You will self-drive for the rest of the tour, with a detailed info booklet with maps and direction to assist you along the way. Drive through to Okonjima (260 kms/3 hours) to arrive on time for the afternoon visit. The Okonjima Nature Reserve sprawls over 200 km² of undulating plains, mountainous outcrops, and riverine thickets.

Visit of the Africa Foundation followed by a night drive. The AfriCat Foundation was born in the early 1990’s, a Namibia registered non-profit organization which started out primarily as a welfare organization, and has since become focused on educating Namibia’s youth and on research projects which are essential in accomplishing its mission of the long term conservation of Namibia’s wildlife in their natural habitat, but in an enclosed conservation area. To effectively manage carnivores and other species within a closed reserve, a thorough understanding of their altered ecology is needed to make informed management decisions.

Dinner is included at the lodge, and enjoy the evening under a star stubbed sky.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 3

Okonjima Nature Reserve

Staying at Okonjima Luxury Bush Camp

Today's excursions include the leopard tracking in the morning, and the rhino tracking in the afternoon (weather permitting).

Research programme leopard are actively tracked, and their collars are an invaluable resource for locating, and then returning to the Reserve, cats which have migrated to surrounding farmland where they are perceived as threats to livestock.

You will have some time to relax and enjoy the pool, while dinner is included at the lodge.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 4

Ongava Private Game Reserve

Staying at Ongava Tented Camp

Continue your journey up North to reach Ongava Game Reserve (250 kms / 3 hours). Arrive on time for lunch, check in and relax before the afternoon game drive, back at the lodge for dinner and night.

Chat to the camp manager to schedule your days, there are many scheduled game viewing activities, as well as a visit to their research centre.

On the southern shoulder of the Etosha National Park, Ongava Private Game Reserve occupies 30,000 hectares — more than 74,000 acres — of pristine Namibian bushland. Rhinos were the first species to be relocated to this wilderness when it was transformed from unproductive farmland. There are now joined by lions, leopards, elephants, and a wide diversity of other species that were once at home on these plains, and are now at home again.

Your stay includes your meals, selected local beverages and the scheduled game viewing activities.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 5-6

Ongava Private Game Reserve

Staying at Ongava Tented Camp

Enjoy your stay at Ongava, with the rhythm of the animals and enjoy the time at leisure while you relax at camp. It is a great way to decompress from the busy days and reconnect with nature. The tented camp provide an intimate, rustic bush experience and you have plenty of space in your Meru-style tent.

There is a busy, floodlit waterhole in front of the camp while dinners are enjoyed around the nearby open-air fireplace and swimming pool. The reserve boasts a number of hides, giving you the best chance to enjoy a sundowner during the stillness of the evening while watching game amble down to the waterhole.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 7

Twyfelfontein

Staying at Camp Kipwe

Enjoy a hearty breakfast and depart for Camp Kipwe (350 kms / 4 hours) in order to reach the camp by early afternoon. Your stay includes the meals and 2 activities. We suggest you take some time to relax from the drive today and chat with the camp manager to scheduled the next day.

Perched in between rocks, with sweeping views across the Aba Huab valley, Camp Kipwe will surprise you. The setting is one of intimacy and space. An inviting lounge area, where birds fly in to enjoy the water seeping from the rocks, a refreshing swimming pool nestled in the rocks and a scattering of bungalows complete this eco friendly camp. You are free to follow the short walking trails with information showing the names of different plants and trees.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 8

Twyfelfontein

Staying at Camp Kipwe

Wake up early morning for the game drive activity, as you explore the surrounding area and search for animal life such as the desert-adapted elephants.

Back at camp and relax before the afternoon excursion to the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site of Twyfelfontein to explore the rock engravings, along with seeing Burnt Mountain and the Organ Pipes.

Return to camp for a lovely dinner under the star stubbed sly.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 9

Swakopmund

Staying at Brigadoon Boutique Guesthouse

After breakfast, take your vehicle and continue the drive towards to coast and the town of Swakopmund (350 kms / 4.5hours). If you depart early, you can detour to view the seal colony at Cape Cross.

Arrive Swakopmund and check in at the guest house, you are at leisure to explore this little town and enjoy dinner by the sea.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast included

Transport: Included

Day 10

Sesriem

Staying at Namib Outpost

After breakfast, you can return the vehicle at Walvis bay airport and fly to Windhoek. Alternatively continue the trip with 2 nights in the Sossuvlei Dunes. Drop the car rental at Swakopmund airport and fly to Keerweerder, where you are et and transferred to the lodge.

Deep in the Namib Desert, at the foot of a mountain, the lodge overlooks a plain all the way to the red dunes of Sossusvlei and the mountains of the Naukluft. Each chalet is a retreat that allows a true encounter with the desert.

Arrive on time for the sunset drive into the Dunes and enjoy a hearty dinner back at the lodge.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 11

Sesriem

Staying at Namib Outpost

Depart early morning for the Sossuvlei excursion and back at the lodge to relax before the sunset horseback riding. Today will be centered on the desert living and the experience in vehicle - on foot and with the horses.

The excursion starts before dawn, with a drive in closed body 4×4 vehicles to negotiate the challenging sandy sections in Namib-Naukluft National Park. An unforgettable experience will be the red dunes of the Namib Sand Sea, a World Heritage Site.

Leaving the stables and lodge behind, you will set off on an unforgettable journey through wide open plains riding over a varied terrain changing from soft, sandy, stretched open fields, to rockier mountain trails, through dry riverbeds, under Sociable Wearers nests and around Camel thorn trees. Your experienced guide will eagerly tell you more about the environment, fauna and flora. You return to the lodge (about 2 hours activity) on time for dinner and night.

Includes & Excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Day 12

End Of Itinerary

Enjoy a relaxing breakfast at the lodge before the transfer to the airstrip on time for the scheduled flight to Windhoek. Time at leisure until your flight out.