Luxury holidays in Namibia
Climb the red dunes of Sossusvlei as they fill with light before sunrise. Choose to drive or fly between camps, and we book the guides who know every track.
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Namibia
5 days · 4 nights
Windhoek → Waterberg → Etosha → Windhoek
Collect a 4x4 at Windhoek airport and drive north through Okahandja to a lodge in the Waterberg region. Two nights near Etosha National Park give you an afternoon and a full day of game viewing from your own vehicle, before the drive back to Windhoek for a final night in the capital.
Namibia
10 days · 9 nights
Windhoek → Kalahari → Sossusvlei → Swakopmund → Erindi → Windhoek
A loop from Windhoek in your own 4x4, heading south-east into the Kalahari and then west to the high dunes of Sossusvlei. Two nights in the seaside town of Swakopmund give you a free day on the coast, and two more at the Erindi reserve leave time for game drives before a final night in Windhoek.
Namibia is where travellers who know big empty country still find themselves lost for words. The Namib has been dry for around 55 million years, and its dunes run along the Atlantic for some 2,000 kilometres. At Sossusvlei you climb a red slope at first light, then walk down into Deadvlei, where camel thorn trees have stood dead for centuries on a white clay pan.
Further north, desert elephants and lions follow the dry riverbeds of the Hoanib, and community conservancies in Damaraland protect Africa's largest free roaming population of black rhino. Etosha's waterholes draw lion and elephant through the dry months. Many travellers drive the main route themselves on good gravel roads, while others fly between camps and see the Skeleton Coast from the air.
Most Namibia trips begin at Sossusvlei and finish at Etosha's waterholes.
Some of the world's highest dunes, the white clay pan of Deadvlei and its old camel thorn trees, best at sunrise.
A seaside town where the desert meets the Atlantic, with dune drives and boat trips to see seals and dolphins.
A vast salt pan ringed by waterholes, where elephants, rhino and lions come to drink in the dry months.
The dry months from May to October bring wildlife to Etosha's waterholes, and storms from December to March turn the desert briefly green.
Hot with summer storms inland, Etosha turns green and game spreads out.
The wettest month inland, with dramatic skies over the desert.
Rains taper off, grass is high and roads can be slow.
Clear air after the rains and green plains across the north.
Dry, mild days and cool nights, a good month for driving.
Cool, dry winter, game begins to gather at Etosha's waterholes.
Crisp mornings and clear skies, excellent game viewing in Etosha.
Dry and sunny, the best waterhole sightings of the year.
Warming days and peak game viewing before the heat.
Hot inland, wildlife concentrated at the last waterholes.
Very hot in the desert, first rains possible late in the month.
Hot with summer storms, the coast stays mild.
Most travellers change planes in Johannesburg for the two hour hop into Windhoek.
Victoria Falls is easy to add on the way home, and Cape Town sits close to the south.
Cape Town, the winelands and Big Five safaris near Kruger.
Livingstone's side of the falls, with Chobe and the Okavango.
Victoria Falls in full flow and sunsets on the Zambezi.
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