Skeleton Coast Safari D From £4690pp

Day 1

We meet at Eros Airport, Windhoek at 07h00 for an early morning flight to Sossusvlei in the Namib Naukluft Park. Sossusvlei is reputed to have the highest dunes in the world. The view of the shadow-lined dunes from the air is well worth seeing. Land at Sesriem from where we undertake an excursion by vehicle into the dunes. The dunes reach heights of 300m or more and for those inclined and fit enough to climb them, this might pose a challenge. After our excursion at Sossusvlei we fly to the Wolwedans Dune Camp in the NamibRand Nature Reserve where you stay for two nights. (A similar alternative will be offered if Wolwedans is not available). An afternoon drive through the nature reserve concludes our first day. Your pilot-guide will arrange for a light picnic lunch to be served during the day's itinerary.

Day 2

We fly to Lüderitz to participate in the daylong Elizabeth Bay Safari. This introduces visitors to the town of Lüderitz with its old ghost town relics at Kolmanskop and mining plants of the early German pioneers, the forbidden coast and a fur seal colony. The flight from Lüderitz during the late afternoon passes over Spencer Bay, with its picturesque Otavi shipwreck, seals basking on the rocky slopes, penguins and other birdlife. This is possibly the most desolate and impelling part of the Skeleton Coast.

Day 3

The flight from Wolwedans (or alternative) to Swakopmund includes an aerial view of the famous Eduard Bohlen shipwreck at Conception Bay. After landing and refuelling at Swakopmund, we continue with a low-level flight north along the Skeleton Coast past the seal colony at Cape Cross for a light picnic lunch near the beach. Thereafter we fly east, over the desert, to the Ugab formations–a nearly lifeless ‘moon landscape' of numerous black ridges that stand out in stark contrast to the white desert floor–before landing at our Kuidas camp in the Huab River Valley, where you stay for the night. Ancient rock engravings are found amongst the rocks within walking distance of the camp.

Day 4

Pick up Safari A from Day 2

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