Activities

Arrive At Windhoek International (Hosea Kutako) 

Airport Arrive at Windhoek International (Hosea Kutak, Airport, located 40km outside Windhoek, • Meet our liaison at the airport who will assist you through to connect with your pilot who will fly you by a Private Charter to Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, your home for the next two nights at All Inclusive Basis. Welcome to Sossusvlei Private Desert Reserve... This beautiful reserve is a vast 12,715 hectare (31,419 acre) expanse deep in the Namib, the world's oldest living desert. Set amidst an ocean of dunes, rocky outcrops and gravel plains, the utter tranquillity and extraordinary clarity of light makes this area one of Africa's most compelling landscapes. The night skies are heavenly, with the concession bordering the International Dark Sky Reserve of the NamibRand Nature Reserve. There is just one property on the reserve, making it truly exclusive. 

DAY 1 - Sossusvlei 

This most frequently visited section of the massive 50,000 km' Namib Naukluft National Park has become known s'acnr dunes rbtesrteTle, towering byapricot following the Tsauchab River valley. Sossusvlei itself is actually a clay pan set amidst these star shaped dunes which stand up to 300 meters above the surrounding plains, ranking them among the tallest dunes on earth. The deathly white clay pan contrasts against the orange sands and forms the endpoint of the ephemeral Tsauchab River, within the interior of the Great Sand Sea. The river course rises south of the Naukluft Mountains in the Great Escarpment It penetrates the sand sea for some 55 km before it finally peters out at Sossusvlei, about the same distance from the Atlantic Ocean. 

DAY 2 - Transfer By Private Charter To Damarand. 

Destination -Camp Onduli Damarand, all inclusive basis. Today you will board your light aircraft flight to Damaraland, with a short stop at Swakopmund Airport for refuelling purposes. The first stretch of the flight takes you on a scenic route north over the famous Sossusvlei dunes and the great Namib Sea Sand (declared a natural World Heritage Site) towards to coast, where (weather dependent) you will see deserted mines, shipwrecks and seal colonies on the way up towards Sandwich Harbour and the port of Walvis Bay. A highlight is the flight over the Eduard Bohlen, a German cargo ship that ran aground in 1909 while it was on its way to Table Bay from Swakopmund. It is believed that thick fog caused the ship to founder close to Conception eBnacYr. o*calrisolTtrie hoecZarrTcl aground cs'Itj inpdt the was o"nce began to stranded in the ocean slowly became stranded in the desert. 

DAY 3 - Desert Safari At Twyfelfontein 

Strewn over a hillside amongst flat-topped mountains of red sandstone, Twyfelfontein's boulders and slabs of red sandstone hold some 2,500 prehistoric engravings that depict wildlife, animal spoor and abstract motifs. It is perhaps the largest and finest collection of petroglyphs in Africa. The engravings show animals such as elephant, giraffe, kudu, lion, rhinoceros, springbok, zebra and ostrich that once used to drink from a fountain at the bottom of the hill. In some cases footprints were engraved instead of hooves or paws. The abstract motifs feature mainly circles. Stone tools and other artifacts found at Twyfelfontein suggest that hunter-gatherers occupied the site over a period of perhaps 7,000 years. 

Day 4 - Transfer By Car To Etosha National Park 

Destination- Anderssons at Ongava, Ongava Private Game Reserve.Full board basis • Safari Adventure at Ongava Private Game Reserve.... Today you will mbark on a shared game drive to Ongava Game Reserve. Sharing a common boundary with the Etosha National Park, Ongava is considered one of the finest private game reserves in the region, enjoying global recognition for exceptional conservation, ground breaking research and exciting safari adventures. It has a rich history which has given it the opportunity to gain such a repuation. In 1991, several families invested in the future by turning four unproductive cattle ranches in Northern Namibia into a prolific 30,000-hectare private game reserve that is now a haven to large concentrations of wildlife. Where lions were once shot on sight, Ongava is now home to several prides that are the hunters, not the hunted. Rhino populations are not only protected, they are understood, with a major genetics study revealing paternity and guiding decisions that encourage the prosper, of the species. The Ongava Game Reserve is typified by white calcrete soils, rocky outcrops and scrub-covered plains which support a rich variety of game including over 100 different mammals such as giraffe, lion, rhino and various antelope species. 

DAY 5 - Safari Adventure To Etosha National Park 

Etosha National Park covers 22,270 km., of which approximately 5,000 km' is made up of saline depressions or 'pans'. The largest of these pans, the Etosha Pan, can be classified as a saline desert in its own right. The Etosha Pan lies in the Owambo Basin, on the north-western edge of the Namibian Kalahari Desert. Until three million years ago it formed part of huge, shallow lake that was reduced to a complex of salt pans when the major river that fed it, the Kunene, changed course and began to flow to the Atlantic instead. If the lake existed today, it would be the third largest in the world. Etosha is the largest of the pans at 4,760 kri, in extent. It is nowadays filled with water only when sufficient rain falls to the north in Angola, inducing floods to flow southward along the Cuvelai drainage system. The Park consists of grassland, woodland and savannah. Gameviewing centers around the numeroussprings and waterholes where several different species can often be seen at one time. The Park boasts some 114 mammal and over 340 bird species. Wildlife that one might see includes elephant, lion, giraffe, blue wildebeest, eland, kudu, gemsbok (oryx), zebra, rhino, cheetah, leopard, hyena, honey badger and warthog, as well as the endemic black faced impala. 

DAY 6 - Transfer By Car To Otliwarol, Africat Foundation Then After To Windhoek International Airport 

After an early breakfast you exit the park and your journey leads you south via Outjo and Otjiwarongo and on to reach Okonjima's AfriCat Day Centre, a wonderful highlight with which to conclude your safari. Okonjima is home to the AfriCat Foundation, a wildlife centre which focuses on research on Africa's big cats, especially leopard and cheetah. You arrive in time for lunch before embarking on an exciting and informative drive and tour of the centre. Here you will learn about the function and vision of the AfriCat Foundation and will also get to meet some of the Foundation's special carnivore ambassadors. After the excursion and freshening up, the journey continues further south to arrive back in Windhoek in the late afternoon, just as the sun is setting. Upon your arrival in Windhoek you will be transferred out to the Windhoek International airport departure Bights must be no earlier than 21h00 to allow sufficient time for the morning activity and the journey back to Windhoek, or a final night in Windhoek can be arranged at additional cost if required.