Exploring the Skeleton Coast of Namibia
A Scheduled Trip to Namibia
Highlights
A coast of loneliness and contrast and history. A journey to the most North-Western part of Namibia.
Scheduled group tour from
April 12, 2018 - April 23, 2018
Starting from
US$ 2,901
per person sharing
Duration
10 days / 9 nights
Transport
Self-Drive Holiday
Accommodation
Tents
About this Safari
To be on this route is a privilege, as not many people pass through this part of Namibia and is one of the most remote areas of this beautiful country, Namibia. A route from Swakopmund to Puros or Sesfontein, covering about 1.500km,with the most unusually sceneries, from mountains to plains and beaches quite a few shipwrecks and over dunes. You will be driving with a guide in a 4×4 vehicle where the roads are permissable. If you have 4×4 driving experience, you can bring your own vehicle too.
Tour Departure Dates:
- 26 March to 02 April
- 12 – 23 April
- 29 April to 07 May
NAD 31,250 per person (based on 2 persons self-driving without a guide in the vehicle).
Pricing for more persons on request.
Day By Day Itinerary
Day 1 :- Arrival
You will be collected form the airport in Windhoek by your guide, please catch the earliest flight into Namibia, as this day you have to drive to Swakopmund where you spend the first night, the tour start the next morning.
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Day 2: - Adventure Begins
We meet with our guides early morning (6.30)on the first day at the Shell petrol station and last circle on the Hentiesbay road. Hentiesbay just a short stop, and drive to the entrance gate of the park. Our first of many ship wrecks we see is the South West Seal, that was beached in
1976 . We also visit the old rusted Toscanini oil…….
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Day 3: - Scenery of the wreck
The scenery varies as we travel along from barren landscape to mountains, riverbeds and here you realize the intense loneliness of this part of the country. The colors vary too from yellow of the sand to black on the mountains and……
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Day 4: - Adventure with colours
This day is going to be an interesting day as the scenery changed from the riverbed and high mountains right next to us to plains with the most stunning colors. .Barren, with dark brown colors and the yellow of the sand. The orange of the lichen that brightened the whole area up. Lichens are a symbolic relationship between fungus and algae and are well adapted to survive in harsh conditions. The desert hosts 120 species. Some are black on rocks and even fields of them, putting some water on them and than watching them getting green is something amazing to see. Onward we go along the beach to Cape Fria and…….
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Day 5: - Borsluisbaai
Today we will reach the Kunene mouth,first over some dunes and stop to have a beautiful view over the “borsluisbaai…….
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Day 6: - View from the Mountains
Over the dunes our guides will take you to a lovely spot where you have a beautiful view over the mountains at the Angola side and dunes at Namibia side and the river far down…..
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Day 7: - River Walk
Before departing you can walk again to the river and see the rapids, climbing over huge boulders. Warned again to be careful as crocodiles may have the same thought as you and go for a walk !!
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Day 8: - Castles of Clay
You might see some Welwitschia’s today on route. bThe “Castles of clay in the Hoarusib river will leave you speechless, Someone wrote: ” If there are any doubts as the incredible power of the ancient forces that played havoc in Western Namibia many millions years ago than ……
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Day 9: - Puros Canyon
This day is a river day, descending to the Hoarusib river and driving through water streams…and the most beautiful mountains on both sides. Till we come to the famous “poort”, entering the Puros Canyon.
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Day 10:- Goodbye to Memories of a lifetime
The tour is finished and today you start to travel back to Windhoek with one overnight, before reaching Windhoek on day 11, once in Windhoek you will be dropped at our accommodation or at the airport for your flight out.
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Rates Inclusions
Prices of the tour include the following:
• Concession fees payable to the Ministry
• Park entrance and usage fees per person per day payable to the Ministry
• Radio communication between vehicles (important and compulsory)
• Two guide vehicles
• Three meals per day
• Namvic vehicle hire and fuel (fuel not included in self-drive option)
• Namvic tour guide and his accommodation and meals (not on self-drive basis)
• 2 nights accommodation before and after the tour, on DBB basis
Gallery
Etosha National Park 1 Etosha National Park Skeleton Coast Park Skeleton Coast Zeila Shipwreck Shipwreks In Namibia Zeila Wreck 1
Exploring the Skeleton Coast of Namibia Map
Damaraland Mountain Camp, Namibia
Hentiesbaai, Namibia
Hentiesbaai, Namibia
Hoarusib River, Namibia
Windhoek, Namibia
Cape Fria, Namibia
Etosha National Park, Namibia
Best Time to Visit
January
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February
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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The adventure begins and ends in Windhoek.
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