The Best of Namibia Fly-in Safari is an exciting fly-in safari on which guests can experience and explore the highlights of Namibia - including Sossusvlei and the Namib Desert; the Skeleton Coast around Walvis Bay and Swakopmund; Damaraland and .
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 usually around four guests - but we reserve the right to book up to a maximum of ten guests.
DETAILED ITINERARY
Days 1 & 2: Namib Desert
The safari departs late morning from Eros Airport in Windhoek by light aircraft for Sossusvlei, about an hour's flight away, where we will spend the next two nights at Sossusvlei Wilderness Camp.
Activities here are conducted in 4x4 vehicles and include a safari down to the very end of the Tsauchab River and to the heart of Sossusvlei for wonderful dune scenes.
Optional early morning ballooning can be arranged at extra cost (to be booked in advance).
Late afternoons are time to explore the reserve around the camp.
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Days 3 & 4: Swakopmund & Damaraland
We depart by light aircraft and fly over the dunes of the Namib and Sossusvlei to gain a different perspective of the area from the air.
We continue westwards to Meob Bay on the Atlantic Ocean and then fly up the Skeleton Coast. The flight offers spectacular desert and Skeleton Coast scenery, where the dunes and the desert meet the Atlantic Ocean. Our flight takes us over the site of the Eduard Bolen shipwreck, past Conception Bay and the wreck site of the Shaunee, around Sandwich Harbour and its famous lagoon, the flamingoes at Walvis Bay and on to Swakopmund.
Once in Swakopmund we are met and transferred to Walvis Bay for a wonderful boat trip out to sea where there are frequently good sightlings of dolphins, seals and sometimes even penguins and whales.
In the afternoon we depart from Swakopmund, for a scenic flight further up the Skeleton Coast, and past the Cape Cross Seal Colony before we turn east and fly up the Huab River to Damaraland Camp for two nights. Highlights of our stay at Damaraland Camp are nature excursions into the rocky desert in search of the rare and endangered desert Elephant and Rhino.
We are in an area where the chances of encountering the desert Elephants are high.
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Days 5 & 6: Etosha
Fly by light aircraft from Damaraland to Ongava Lodge for two nights.
Our game drive activities will focus mainly within Etosha National Park in the mornings. Etosha, covering an area of 22,000 square kilometres, offers excellent game viewing opportunities. In the afternoon and evening we have the opportunity to enjoy walks, hides and night drives within the private Ongava Reserve, activities not possible within Etosha. Lion, Leopard, Elephant White Rhino and Black Rhino as well as all the plains game can be seen here. Tracking Rhino on foot is one of Ongava's highlights.
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Day 7: End of safari
Depart Ongava Lodge for flight back to Windhoek.
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