Namibia Self Drive Safari Camping From £1999 per person - 15 Days

Overnight: Trans Kalahari Inn, near Windhoek

Accommodation Type: 2 x Luxury Thatched Rooms

Meal Basis: Bed and Breakfast ( A La Carte Restaurant on site )

You will be met at the airport by your vehicle hire representative and driven the short distance to the car hire depot, where you will be familiarised with your 4×4.

The vehicle comes with standard insurance – other insurance options are available upon request

From here you will set off to your accommodation.

From the car hire depot, it is a mere 5-minute drive to your overnight accommodation, the Trans Kalahari Inn where you can relax on your first night. The Inn has lovely rooms, friendly staff, a swimming pool and bar and an excellent restaurant so we think it is a great first night stop over before your adventure begins.

Overnight: Sesriem Campsite

Accommodation Type: 1 x National Park Campsite

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( Bar and Restaurant on site )

You leave the Inn this morning and travel over the Spreetshoogte Pass and on to the Namib / Sossusvlei Park to Sesriem Campsite. This beautiful camp lies within the national park and the individual pitches are situated under ancient camel thorns overlooking the red dunes.

There is a shop, a restaurant and pool at this site.

Overnight: Sesriem Campsite

Accommodation Type: 1 x National Park Campsite

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( Bar and Restaurant on site )

A very early start is advised for you this morning to drive into the heart of this ancient desert in time to watch the sun rise over the largest sand dunes in the world. If you are still feeling energetic in the afternoon, then a walk down Sesriem Canyon is a must with its narrowing sides and rock pools just right for cooling off after your trek

Overnight: Private Campsite with own ablutions and kitchen/braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( wide choice of restaurants available in Swakopmund )

A long drive today but an interesting one. Over the Tropic of Capricorn and through canyons until you reach the ocean.

It’s worth stopping at Solitaire to enjoy some of Moose’s famous apple crumble before heading off west through the Namib.

Located at the Swakopmund River Mouth, mere metres from the beach, Alte Brucke is a neat campsite with lovely private sites and sprawling communal lawn.

Overnight: Private Campsite with own ablutions and kitchen/braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( wide choice of restaurants available in Swakopmund )

There are so many choices of activities on offer in Swakopmund from seal and dolphin tours to exhilarating sand driving tours through the desert, quad biking, sky diving or just mooching around this quirky coastal town.

Overnight: Private Campsite with own ablutions and kitchen/braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( wide choice of restaurants available in Swakopmund )

Nearby Walvis Bay is worth a visit while staying at the coast. The natural harbour is fascinating being home to a working container port and is becoming increasingly important for marine repairs including oil rigs that come from all over the world to be serviced by Namibian specialists.

In addition to the port itself Walvis Bay has a thriving tourism market and it is from here that the seal and dolphin tours leave as well as opportunities for sea kayaking and a thrilling drive through the sand dunes to Sandwich Harbour 50 kilometres south.

Overnight: Private Campsite with own ablutions and kitchen/braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite

Meal Basis: Self Catering

Mowani Campsite is set in one of the most beautiful areas in Namibia and is very close to the Twyfelfontein Rock Engravings which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The individual campsites here are built into the deep red boulders that the area is known for and it is not unusual to have occasional visits by Namibia’s desert adapted elephants.

You head up the coastal road this morning until you reach Henties Bay where you turn off into the desert on the gravel road. Lunch can be taken in the one-horse town of Uis and then you continue north through the Herero heartland before you reach Mowani and the giant red boulders that define this area.

Mowani Campsite is well situated for visits to the nearby Twyfelfontein Rock Engravings, the organ pipes and petrified forest and there is always a chance of seeing desert elephants in this area.

Overnight: Private Campsite with shared ablutions and kitchen/braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite with shared ablutions

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( there is a pool bar that serves food all day and a restaurant for evening meals )

The journey from Mowani to Palmwag is arguably one of the most scenic in Namibia. 

You travel over mountain passes and through sandy rivers before you reach the Palmwag Wildlife Concession.

The predator population here is the largest outside of the Etosha National Park, with over 100 lions, cheetah, leopard, brown and spotted hyena. Bird life is prolific and diverse with most of Namibia’s endemics present. This concession supports a healthy population of desert adapted black rhino and elephants as well as Namibia’s herbivore species.

Overnight: Private Campsite with shared ablutions and kitchen/braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite with shared ablutions

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( there is a pool bar that serves food all day and a restaurant for evening meals )

For a small charge you can buy a permit to drive into the unfenced reserve and enjoy a day exploring this amazing area on your own or you can join one of the guided tours organised by the lodge including rhino tracking both on foot and by vehicle.

The Concession is wild and remote and is a wonderful place to enjoy Namibia’s wildlife in simply stunning scenery

Overnight: Campsite with shared ablutions and braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x National Park Campsite with shared ablutions

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( there is a restaurant on site for lunches and dinners )

A long drive today, but an interesting one. You drive over the Grootberg Pass to the one-horse town of Kamajab and on to the Andersson Gate in Central Etosha to begin your safari in this world famous wildlife sanctuary.  

This huge park is home to an amazing diversity of wildlife and the area around Okaukuejo is known for its open plains and wide vistas where vast herds of herbivores trek endlessly to the camp’s floodlit waterhole followed by the ever-present carnivores looking for their next meal. The floodlit waterhole at Okaukuejo is a real bonus with nightly visits by elephants and black rhino along with many of Etosha’s other wildlife species.

Please note: Whilst the Camps within Etosha National Park give additional opportunities for wildlife viewing with early morning access to the reserve and floodlit waterholes by night the service at the lodges outside the park is generally of a higher standard. Please ask for alternative accommodation options if smaller, more personal lodges are an important part of your holiday experience.

Overnight: Campsite with shared ablutions and braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x National Park Campsite with shared ablutions

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( there is a restaurant on site for lunches and dinners )

A second night at Okaukuejo gives you a full day to explore this diverse area. To the west of the camp the open plains are full of herbivores who trek to a few key waterholes that open out onto the pan. To the east the plains give way to Mopane woodlands where forest dwellers take over and large herds of elephant are found in abundance.

Overnight: Campsite with shared ablutions and braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x National Park Campsite with shared ablutions

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( there is a restaurant on site for lunches and dinners )

You head east through the park today towards Namutoni Camp and the wildlife rich acacia woodland around Fischer’s Pan.  Not only is this area home to some of Etosha’s largest lion prides, leopard sightings here are frequent, this area is home to the majority of the park’s giraffe, and it is one of the best places in Africa to see the world’s smallest antelope, the diminutive Damara Dik-Dik.

Etosha Highlights: floodlit waterholes, Etosha Pan, elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, cheetah, zebra, oryx, giraffe, black-faced impala, wildebeest, springbok, eland, kudu, jackals, honey badgers, mongooses, raptors, vultures.

Overnight: Campsite with shared ablutions and braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x National Park Campsite with shared ablutions

Meal Basis: Self Catering ( there is a restaurant on site for lunches and dinners )

Overnight: Campsite with private ablutions and kitchen/ braii area

Accommodation Type: 1 x Private Campsite with shared pool

Meal Basis: Self Catering

The four, partially-equipped, private campsites share a swimming pool at the foot of the Ombokoro Mountains and are located in the 2000ha non-rehabilitation area. All four sites boast spectacular sundowner viewpoints.

Today you have a chance to learn about the conservation work of the Africat Foundation with a visit to the Carnivore Care Centre as well as another visit to the 54,000 acre reserve in search of the ever elusive leopard

Morning and Afternoon Activities

With its genuine conservation story, Okonjima is always a highlight of any trip to Namibia.