Namibia Wing Safari Tour
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7 day Best of Namibia Wing Safari Tour
experience the highlights of Namibia
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Summary of this 7 day Best of Namibia Wing Safari tour:
# Accommodation: Various camps and lodges
# Activities: 4×4 Game drives, Scenic flights
# Destinations: Windhoek, Namib Desert, The Skeleton Coast, Swakopmund and
Damaraland Etosha and Ongava.
What you is given on this 7 day Best of Namibia Wing Safari tour:
tourists on this fly-in Namibia safari package feel the highlights of this exciting country – Sossusvlei the Namib; the Skeleton Coast; Swakopmund; Damaraland and Etosha. Each Sunday (and Thursday from July to October) we fly from Windhoek International Airport or Eros Airport in Windhoek on the ‘Best of Namibia Wing Safari’. The aircraft and pilot stay with the group throughout so there is continuity and flexibility. All meals, park fees and activities are included. Group size is normally around four guests – but reserve the right to go for a maximum of ten.
Day 1 & 2: The Namib Desert – Sossusvlei Wilderness Camp
The Best of Namibia Wing Safari Tour leave from Eros Airport (Windhoek) by light aircraft for Sossusvlei Wilderness Camp, about an hour’s flight away. You will be leaving in the late morning. Activities are done in 4×4 vehicles and include a safari down to the peripheri of the Tsauchab River and to the heart of Sossusvlei for stunning dune scenes. Optional early morning ballooning can be organised at extra cost. (This must be booked in advance). Late afternoons are time to move around the reserve around the camp.
Day 3 & 4: The Skeleton Coast, Swakopmund and Damaraland – Damaraland Camp
You leave by light aircraft and fly over the dunes of the Namib and Sossusvlei to gain another perspective of the place from the air in the moments of this Namibia safari package. You head westwards to Meob Bay on the Atlantic Ocean and afterwards fly up the Skeleton Coast. The flight gives wonderful desert and Skeleton Coast scenery, where the dunes and the desert link up with the Atlantic Ocean. Your flight leads you over the site of the Eduard Bolen shipwreck, past Conception Bay and the wreck area of the Shaunee, around Sandwich Harbour and its renouned lagoon, the Flamingoes at Walvis Bay and on to Swakopmund.
Here you are welcomed and driven to Walvis Bay for a stunning boat trip out to sea where there are oftenly good sightlings of dolphins, seals and some moments also penguins and whales. In the afternoon you make your way from Swakopmund, for an exciting flight above the Skeleton Coast, and past the Cape Cross Seal Colony prior to you turning east and fly up the Huab River to Damaraland Camp for two nights. Highlights of the stay at Damaraland Camp are nature excursions into the rocky desert in search of the rare and endangered desert Elephant and Rhino. This is an area where the chances of encountering the desert Elephants are high.
Day 5 & 6: Etosha and Ongava – Ongava Lodge or Ongava Tented Camp
You board a light aircraft from Damaraland to Ongava Lodge or Ongava Tented Camp for two nights. Etosha, occupying an area of 22 000 square kilometres, provide a stunning game viewing chances. Your game drive participations will be mostly within Etosha in the mornings. In the afternoon and evening you have the opportunity to take pleasure in walks, hides and night drives in the private Ongava Reserve, activities are quite hard within Etosha. Lion, Leopard, Elephant White Rhino and Black Rhino together with all the plains game can be spotted here. Tracking Rhino on foot is part of theĀ Ongava’s excitments.
Day 7: Back to Windhoek
You leave Ongava Lodge for flight returning to Windhoek.
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