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We offer tailor-made guided tours to various places of interest in Namibia. Join our Professional guide on a private and specialized tour.
Visit the world renowned largest game reserve in the world, the Etosha National Park.
Consisting of saline desert, savannah and woodlands, its definitive feature is the Etosha Pan, a vast, shallow depression of approximately 5 000 km². For the greater part of the year the pan is a bleak expanse of white, cracked mud which, on most days shimmers with mirages. In local colloquial language the pan is referred to as the “great white place of dry water”. A series of waterholes along the southern edge of the pan guarantees rewarding and often spectacular game viewing. Several of the 114 mammal species found in the park are rare and/or endangered, including the black rhino and black-faced impala. Etosha’s elephants are thought to be the tallest in Africa, and the black-faced impala is endemic to this area. Over 340 bird species have been recorded at Etosha.
Enjoy splendid game viewing in the Etosha National Park.
 
Visit the Twyfelfontein rock-engraving site in the Huab Valley which was awarded World Heritage status at a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Christchurch, New Zealand. The 2 000-plus rock engravings represent one of Africa’s largest and most important rock-art concentrations, where great Etjo sandstone formations provided the canvases used by the rock artists who created the gigantic open-air gallery some 2 000 to 6 000 years ago. Three legendary sites, all of ancient geological origin, The Burnt Mountain, the Organ Pipes and the Petrified Forest in Damaraland are worth visiting. The Petrified Forest is a site of recumbent fossilized tree trunks that was declared a national monument in the early 1950s and is a National Heritage Site today.
Visit part of Kaokoland home to the Desert Elephants, which at one time thought to be a separate or sub-specie of the African elephant, Loxodanto Africana, due to its longer legs, bigger feet and ability to withstand drought. The so-called desert elephants of Kaokoland are now regarded as “desert-adapted” rather than a different species. Their main source of water and nutrition is in the dry river courses of the westward-flowing rivers such as the Huab, Hoanib, Hoarusib, and Khumib where they feed on mopane bark, tamarisk, reeds and rushes, and the nutritious pods, bark and leaves of the ana tree. These elephants range widely, traveling up to 60 kilometers in a day over rugged terrain between the different springs. In periods of drought they dig holes, referred to as gorras, in the dry riverbeds, into which water seeps from below at the same time providing a source of water for other animals of the desert.
 
Visit the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world, a long narrow strip of moist coastal desert between 50-140 kilometers in width and 1350 kilometers in length, bordered by the Kunene River in the north and the Orange Riving in the south. It is home to the Welwitschia mirabilis, a botanical curiosity endemic to the Namib Desert.
The plants grow in a narrow belt that lies between 30-40 kilometers inland, from the Kuiseb River in the central Namib more or less all the way up to Mossamedes in Angola. The best specimens grow amongst the hills of the Messum Crater south-west of the Brandberg. Visit Cape Cross, home to a large “300 000-strong” seal colony and marked by a stone cross planted by the Portuguese navigator, Diego Cao in 1486, on one of this journeys in search of a sea route to the Far East.
Visit our coastal town, Swakopmund founded in 1892 during the period of German Colinial rule, serving as the territory’s main harbor for many years. Many of the old colonial buildings with distinct German architecture have been preserved. The Swakopmund museum is a small but comprehensive institution with smalls ranging from natural history, botany and mineralogy to ethnological and historical smalls. Today lush green lawns, palm trees and public gardens enhance this quaint desert town, hedged by the desert and the sea.
We can take you as far down as the to the Sossusvlei is a clay pan in which the west–flowing Tsauchab River flows. It is surrounded by star-shaped dunes, reaching a height of 325m, the highest in the world. Visit the Sesriem Canyon, where centuries of erosion have incised a narrow gorge about 1km in length. At the foot of the gorge, which plunges down 30m to 40m, are pools that become replenished after good rains. Sesriem derives its name form the time when early pioneers tied six lengths of rawhide thongs together to draw water from the pools.
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