Experience Namibia's highlights in comfort, with wildlife encounters, elegant desert camps, gourmet dining, and sundowners.
Enjoy Namibia's incredible scenery and wildlife highlights whilst staying at a range of luxury camps. Watch the twinkling stars from you open deck, head out on thrilling safari drives, learn about the Bushmen's way of life, and enjoy sundowners at sunset. We describe this holiday as a self-drive adventure across Namibia but you can opt to use private transfers, for an additional cost.
Embark on an unforgettable journey through Namibia and enjoy some of Namibia’s best wildlife experiences. Stay in hand-picked luxury camps, where elegance meets the untamed beauty of Namibia and open decks allow you to connect with nature. Dine outdoors and enjoy panoramic views of rugged landscapes, drink sundowners under star-filled African skies, and cool off in open-air pools. With luxury rooms and free-roaming animals outside your window, the tented camos are as much a part of the adventure as the safari drives.
After staying for one night in Windhoek, you drive to Okonjima Wildlife Reserve to track leopards, staying overnight in their luxury tented camp. Continue to Etosha and head into the park on a guided game drive, where you could spot all three of the big cats: lion, leopard, and cheetah. You’ll stay at Onguma Tented Camp, near the eastern gate of Etosha, and can enjoy watching animals drink from the watering hole in the camp grounds. Moving on to the rugged wilderness of Damaraland, you’ll go in search of desert-adapted elephants and rare black rhino whilst staying at the incredible Mowani Mountain Camp, perched among dramatic granite boulders.
Beyond the wildlife, you’ll visit the Living Museum in Twyfelfontein to learn about the San people; how they built their homes and made clothes, and what tools they used to hunt and make friction-fires. From the wonderfully scenic Ai Aiba Rock Painting Lodge, you will head out on a guided drive to see the famous rock paintings of Etendeka, many of them thousands of years old and an fascinating window into the bushman’s way of life. This will be a holiday that you will remember forever!
You’ll be met at the airport just outside Windhoek and driven 45 minutes in air conditioned luxury to your gorgeous boutique hotel in a quiet corner of Namibia’s capital.
This morning you will drive for 2.5 hour to Okonjima Nature Reserve, staying at their luxury bush camp. Nestled at the base of the Omboroko Mountains, the luxury camp contains eight thatched chalets, all decorated using locally sourced materials and a touch of African charm and spaced well apart, so you have your own little slice of African wilderness. There's a shared lounge area and open-air pool.
Today you will head deep into the Okonjima nature reserve, a 2000 hectare wilderness where leopard, hyena, pangolins, and honey badgers can roam free, under the protection of the AfriCat Foundation.
It's a 4 hour drive today to get to your luxury camp at the eastern side of Etosha National Park. Onguma tented camp has a collection of luxury tented rooms and it's own watering hole, where animals come to drink. We've included a private bush dinner, so you will dine under the stars tonight whilst listening to the sounds of the wildlife that surrounds you. Perhaps take a zip in the wood-fired hot tub.
This morning you'll be collected from the camp for your morning safari drive at Etosha National Park. The open vehicles allow you to get a clear view of the animals and the parks includes all three of the big cats: cheetah, lion, and leopard. You're also likely to see elephant, rhino, zebra, giraffe, springbok, oryx, wildebeest and a vast range of other animals that are adapted to the salt flats and grasslands of Etosha. You'll return to Onguma tented camp and can enjoy time at the pool and a a gourmet meal out in the open, under the shelter of canvas.
It's a 6.5 hour drive to get to Mowani Mountain Camp but there will be plenty to stop-off and see along the way. You'll pass a range of beautiful scenery, from dry desert landscapes to vast salt pans and acacia woodlands. Remote Damaraland is home to a huge number of elephants and its likely that you'll spot some on your drive. Mowani Mountain Camp is in the pretties surroundings, with luxury huts hidden amongst large boulders with softened edges. There's a gorgeous pool to cool off in a shared outdoor seating areas, which is just perfect for watching those pink African sunsets.
Your camp is close to the UNESCO heritage site of Twyfelfontein and this morning you will head out on a safari drive to spot the desert adapted elephants that live here. You might also spot rhino, ostrich, Damara hornbill, and even cheetah if you're lucky! In the afternoon you can relax back at the mountain camp and enjoy a cool drink at the sunset bar.
This morning you will head to the Damara Living Museum, where you can get to know the traditions of the Damara Bushmen. Sadly, during the colonisation of Namibia the bushmen's way of life was largely lost and the Damara Living Museum is one of several across Namibia, where the aim is to maintain the old practices and way of life of the bushmen who ones lived in harmony with Namibia's landscape.
It takes 3 hours and 20 minutes to get from Mowani Mountain Camp to the Ai Aiba Rock Painting Lodge, in the Erongo Mountains. A collection of lodges sit at the bottom of a boulder-covered hill covered, in a flat landscape, surrounded by Erongo's mountains in the distance. The dry, red-earth of the floor is broken up by trees and smooth boulders and open air pool is a great spot to enjoy the veiw!
This morning you will head out for a drive into the mountains and will visit a range of boulders where you can see the rock art of the bushmen, some painted thousands of years ago. You'll return to your luxury lodge at lunch, so you'll have plenty of time to relax and enjoy your surroundings.
Your final drive today is a 3 hour journey into Windhoek, Namibia's capital. If you set off early, you'll have plenty of time in the afternoon to enjoy the German architecture and city highlights, such as the botanic gardens and a range of fantastic restaurants. We recommend visiting the Namibia Craft Centre if you want to buy some souvenirs to take home with you.
Today you'll drop your vehicle at the airport in time to catch your flight home.
May through to September tends to be our favourite time to travel to Namibia, although all months offer an incredible experience.
Namibia’s central area is classified as an arid to semi-arid region; arid becoming semi-arid when rainfall exceeds evaporation. The climate is ‘sub-tropical’ desert, characterised by a wide range in temperature between day and night, and between summer and winter.
The Namibian ‘winter’ is from May to September and during these months the skies are clear and there is little rainfall. As the season progresses, daytime temperatures start to drop from an average of 25˚C in April and May to 15˚C during the day, and nights are cold. Between June and August there may be overnight frost in the desert and high areas so take some layers on evening and night game drives. The drier months of June through to October are the best months to see wildlife, particularly in Etosha National Park, as the wildlife use waterholes – which have good access and are easy to watch – more frequently.
The Namibian ‘summer’ is between October and April. Daytime temperatures are high, sometimes reaching over 40˚C in the desert. There is little humidity between October and the end of the year so high temperatures feel pleasant. From late December through to the end of March there tends to be localised afternoon rain showers which do bring humidity. Wildlife is less reliant on the waterholes at this time of year and so less easy to spot, especially as the vegetation also tends to be more green and leafy.
Price includes:
The price is based on two people sharing a twin or a double room and includes flights from the UK.
For a personalised itinerary and full list of what's included, please get in touch.
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