Transfer from your Windhoek hotel to Eros Airport where you will board your light aircraft. Usually a Cessna or Caravan, these small planes seat up to eight people meaning a quick bording and take off once you have received a briefing from your pilot. It is just a short flight up to the border of Etosha National Park, where you will be met and transferred to your lodge just outside the park. This afternoon enjoy a game drive in an open vehicle to seek out the wide variety of game.

Etosha Village

Dinner

Today is devoted to further game viewing with your guide by open vehicle. Etosha National Park is one of Africa’s premier wildlife havens and is known for its vast salt pan.

The park is home to four of the ‘Big 5’, namely elephant, lion, leopard and rhino, and game viewing is primarily focussed around the waterholes that form on the boundary of the salt pan. These make ideal places to sit and watch for the huge variety of game and bird species which include giraffe, blue wildebeest, zebra, hyena, kudu, oryx, eland and cheetah.

Etosha Village

Breakfast and dinner

After a relaxed breakfast, board your light aircraft and proceed south across the mountainous region of  Damaraland to Twyfelfontein.

In the afternoon, join a ranger and head out into the dry riverbeds and scenic landscapes to seek out the unique desert adapted elephant.

Twyfelfontein Country Lodge

Breakfast and dinner

After breakfast join a local Damara ranger on a guided morning excursion to Twyfelfontein, which has one of the largest concentrations of petroglyphs (rock engravings) in Africa.

Continue your Namibia flying safari as you pass the Brandberg, the country’s highest mountain on your way to Swakopmund. Namibia’s coastline has an eerie beauty bounded by sand dunes and a sea littered with shipwrecks. You may be able to spot some of these from the plane, as well as seal colonies. The beachside town of Swakopmund is known for its German style architecture and café culture, and you will spend two nights here.

The next day transfer by road to Walvis Bay to embark on a wildlife catamaran cruise of the lagoon and harbour. Look out for swooping pelicans, seals, dolphins and even sunfish, whales and turtles in season. Later take a 4wd excursion to Sandwich Harbour, one of Africa’s richest wetlands where you can observe the diverse birdlife which includes eight endangered species. Lunch will be enjoyed on the beach or atop a sand dune.

Hansa Hotel

Breakfast

Back on the plane this morning, fly over the Kuiseb riverbed and dune landscape of the oldest desert on Earth on your way to Sesriem, gateway to the famous Sossusvlei. This afternoon is at leisure to enjoy your hotel facilities or take part in an optional activity.

The next morning enter Namib-Naukluft National Park with a guide at sunrise where you will be able to witness the first rays of sunlight paint the dunes vivid shades of orange and red set against the crisp blue sky. Climb to the top of one of the dunes to survey the majestic desert landscapes and visit the surreal Deadvlei with its petrified trees, a photographers delight!

Sossusvlei Lodge

Breakfast and dinner

Enjoy one last scenic flight as you head back to Windhoek for your onward travel arrangements.

Breakfast