Fly into Namibia

At the airport where you’ll be met by your pilot and take to the skies for the flight to Kwessi Dunes in the NamibRand Nature Reserve. As you near the reserve, you’ll fly over the iconic, blood-red dunes stretching for as far as the eye can see. Kwessi Dunes Lodge is quirky desert retreat with thatched-canvas chalets with star-gazer rooms for sleeping under the African Dark Sky.

Included activities are: Day trip to the dunes of Sossusvlei. Morning and afternoon scenic drives and walks in the NamibRand Nature Reserve. Quad biking.  Star gazing; the NamibRand is Africa’s first International Dark Sky Reserve.  Kwessi Lodge. Optional activity is hot air ballooning.

This morning, it’s back to the plane for a flight towards the Atlantic Coast over famous shipwrecks and Sandwich Harbour. Land in Swakopmund for a seafood lunch on the beach and a brief tour before flying northwards along this dramatic coastline and  inland toward the Hoanib Valley Camp.  

Activities today include: Morning and afternoon desert game drives to search for desert-adapted giraffe, elephant, lion and rhino. Learn about the giraffe research conducted in the area. Nature walks through the dry riverbeds and dunes. Time with the local Himba communities. It is an intimate, eco-luxury tented camp in Namibia’s remote Kaokoland.

Today, you’ll swap two wings for four wheels for the drive to the Skeleton Coast. The full-day journey is one of the most spectacular drives on the continent, and you will travel along the ephemeral Hoanib River, home to large herds of elephant. From there, the route follows the course of the Hoarusib River, where dry plains give way to a clay-baked landscape, and as the salty sea breeze begins to pick up, so the landscape turns to white sand dunes. 

Activities are: Trips to the Mowe Bay seal colony, including stops at the Suiderkus and Karimona shipwrecks, Westies diamond mine, and the remains of the Ventura Bomber. Sundowner drives to the roaring dunes.  Full day 4×4 Hoarusib River excursions, including the Clay Castles and wildlife spotting.  Beach lunches. Quad biking and sand boarding. 

Board your plane for the flight to the Etosha Heights Private Reserve. Accommodation is at Etosha Mountain Lodge, a comfortable, classic Namibian safari lodge perched on a dolomite hill in the private Etosha Heights Reserve—bordering Etosha National Park. 

Enjoy game drives on the 60,000-hectare private reserve that shares a border with the famous Etosha National Park. The reserve offers unspoiled landscapes and a sense of tranquillity and solitude. Wildlife-wise, you’ll find lion, cheetah and many of Namibia’s fascinating desert species, but the reserve is probably most famous for its strong population of black and white rhino.

You are flown back to the Windhoek Airport for your onward flight.