1. Faces of the Namib:
Description: Discover the desert on our unique 4×4 desert tour from East to West across the Namib.
Experience: World’s oldest desert, world’s highest sand dunes, dune driving, adrenaline rushes, unique flora and fauna, off road desert camping and much more…
Duration: 5 nights
Distance: 550 km from Solitaire to Walvis Bay
Cost: R6750 p.p – peak season (Peak season: 15 March – 1 October / 1 December – 15 January)
R5950 p.p – off peak season (Off peak season: 16 January – 14 March / 2 October – 30 November.)
Only exclusive tours can be booked during off peak season with a minimum of 12 adults, less then 12 adults prices on request.
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NB: Optional Extra: Desert Scenic Flight
Experience the magic of the rolling Namib Desert dunes from a Cessna plane. Scenic flights available on request.
2. Faces of the Namib – Shortened versions:
Description: Discover the desert on our unique 4×4 desert tour from East to West across the Namib.
Experience: World’s oldest desert, world’s highest sand dunes, dune driving, adrenaline rushes, unique flora and fauna, off road desert camping and much more…
Please Note: If time is of the essence, we can tailor make a shortened version (2 – 4 days) of the Faces of the Namib tour according to your needs. No scheduled dates available.
Click Faces of the Namib – Shortened Versions for itinerary
NB: Optional Extra: Desert Scenic Flight
Experience the magic of the rolling Namib Desert dunes from a Cessna plane. Scenic flights available on request.
3. Photographic Faces of the Namib
As above but with a special focus on photography
Description: The Namib Desert is a photographer’s paradise due to its unique scenery, expansive dunescapes and incredible skies. This is your chance to photograph those world famous red dunes, fascinating diamond mining towns, the welwitschia mirabilis, and haunting shipwrecks at your leisure. This tour can be adapted to suit amateur enthusiasts or professional photographers.
The photographic tour provides you the opportunity to enjoy the best light (just after dawn and dusk) and to spend more time in places of photographic interest. If you would like to do the Faces of the Namib tour but focus on photography, please send us an e-mail request.
NB: Optional Extra: Desert Scenic Flight
Experience the magic of the rolling Namib Desert dunes from a Cessna plane. Scenic flights available on request.
4. Bird Watching Faces of the Namib
As above but with a special focus on bird watching
Description: Tour leaders and guides will do their best to help keen birders track down rare bird species only found in the Namib. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to observe some rare bird species!
There are six birds considered to be endemic to the Namib Desert.
They are:
- Dune lark (Certhilauda erythrochalamys)
- Benguela long-billed lark (C. benguelensis)
- Gray’s lark (Ammomanes grayi)
- Bank cormorant (Phalacrocorax neglectus)
- Tractrac chat (Cercomela tractrac)
- Rüppell’s korhaan (Eupodotis rueppellii)
The dune lark is strictly endemic to this ecoregion while the gray’s lark, Rüppell’s korhaan, and C. benguelensis are found only in this ecoregion and the Kaokoveld Desert ecoregion.
If you would like to do the Faces of the Namib tour but focus on bird watching, please send us an e-mail request.
NB: Optional Extra: Desert Scenic Flight
Experience the magic of the rolling Namib Desert dunes from a Cessna plane. Scenic flights available on request.
5. Luderitz to Walvis Bay
Description: An adventure along the coast of and into the Namib Desert, traveling between Lüderitz and Walvis Bay in the territory formerly known as “Diamond Area no 2″.
Experience: Silvia Hill, Meob Bay, Conception Bay & Sandwich Bay. Desert wildlife, spectacular scenery, untouched beaches, abandoned mining settlements, miles of sand driving and shipwrecks.
Duration: 6 days
Distance: 680 km
Cost: R6 500-00 per person
NB: Optional Extra: Desert Scenic Flight
Experience the magic of the rolling Namib Desert dunes from a Cessna plane. Scenic flights available on request.
6. Kaokoland Tour
Description: Himba’s, desert elephants, “fairy circles”, open plains and much more…
The Kaokoland is one of the last remaining wilderness areas … a barren, largely inaccessible region filled with natural mystique, scenic beauty and the nomadic Himba culture. The latter still live according to ancient traditions. The Kaokoland is also the home of the famous desert elephant, lion and giraffe that have adapted through time to survive in these conditions. The northern section of this region borders the Kunene River, the natural boundary between Namibia and Angola. Awesome scenes of beautiful waterfalls, palm trees, rugged mountains and dune landscapes are to be found along this river belt.
The highlights of the interior include the vast expand of the Marienfluss with the mysterious “fairy circles” and the open plains of the Hartmansvlakte where herds of Springbok roam.
You will not leave the Kaokoland unaffected…it leaves everlasting impressions. We are not just driving through this wilderness area, but promise to take you places few have visited before you.
This will be a tour of a lifetime…
Duration: approximately 14 days (can differ)
Distance: Flexible, depending on route
Cost: Please contact us directly for a quote
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8. Saddle Hill
Description: Saddle Hill – Skeletons of shipwrecks and mining settlements.
If you want to experience the Namib, but are someone that does not like to pitch camp every night at a different stop … the Saddle Hill tour will suite your needs perfectly.
Saddle Hill was a mining settlement during the heydays of the diamond era. Currently it serves as our base camp from where you will discover the Sperrgebiet. In the next couple of days you will explore the area along the coast and see the skeletons of the Otavi, United Trader and Arkona. You will visit the remains and equipment at the old mining villages and come across the wildlife in the desert.
Come and experience history, wildlife and dune driving.
Experience: Off-road dune driving, Namib Desert scenery and wildlife, Otavi, United Trader and Tong Whang shipwrecks, seal colonies, untouched beaches, Oryx antelope drinking hole
Duration: Choose between 3, 4 and 5-day option of route
Distance: 360 km
Children between 6 and 12 yrs pay 50%
Children between 13 and 17 yrs pay 75%
No scheduled dates available. Contact us for available dates.
