Also spend at least two nights at each location, three ideally, or your holiday will just become an endless road trip. If you decide to self-drive then hire a vehicle up to the job, a 4Г—4 being ideal and give yourself sufficient time to cover the distances between camps, given that many roads are shale and therefore you will be driving slower than you may think. This allows a greater appreciation of the country in all its vast splendour. The distances involved between destinations in Namibia are truly huge and visitors are advised to fly between camps. Astonishing contrasts are everywhere for the visitor to savour and photograph. The many national parks and game reserves boast a huge variety of wildlife in a kaleidoscope of differing environments giraffes and elephants amble across the blinding white salt pans of the Etosha National Park, oryx plunge headlong up the impossibly steep red dunes at Sossusvlei and seals in their many thousand colonise beaches along the world famous Skeleton Coast. The northern coastline is dominated by the Skeleton Coast, with its graveyard of ships driven ashore by Atlantic storms. Moving further north you enter the stunningly beautiful Namib Sand Sea of the Namib Desert where the red dunes of Sossusvlei soar up to 1,000 feet in height and change colour in spectacular fashion with each dusk and dawn.

To the far south is the Fish River Canyon, a massive feature little known and rarely visited in any numbers but on a scale to rival many more famous canyons on the planet. Namibia is also a land of startling contrasts that straddle the two great deserts the Namib (after which the country is named) is the oldest desert on the planet with its sea of red sand lying along the Atlantic coastline, whilst in the eastern interior lies the Kalahari, a vast and sparsely vegetated savannah that sprawls across the border into neighbouring South Africa and Botswana.

In the south, the show-stopping scenery of the Namib-Naukluft National Park is home to the magnificent red sand dunes of Sossusvlei, best viewed from the air by balloon in the still of the morning. The north-west of the country is home to the desolate Skeleton Coast, a vast coastal wilderness of decaying shipwrecks and whale bones, and the location of Cape Cross and Mowe Bay, one of the largest seal colonies in the world. Whatever your dreams of Africa are, consider your pace you wish to travel, luxurious and comfortable, relaxed or adventurous, well travelled or remote. If youвЂ™re lucky you may catch a glimpse of the endangered black rhino or the rare gemsbok, and be prepared for a spectacular gathering of flamingos. Exclusive Africa Tours & Safaris - Namibia - Luxury Travel To Namibia & Southern Africa. Visit the Etosha salt pan for dense herds of large game, drawn here during theВ dry season for the waterholes. NamibiaвЂ™s range of climate and tiny population make it ideal for an intimate safari experience that offers excellent viewing of wildlife adapted to this stark desert landscape. ItвЂ™s also an incredibly varied part of the continent encompassing the seemingly never-ending expanse of the Namib Desert, after which the country is named, the eerily captivating Skeleton Coast, the lofty sand dunes of Sossusvlei, and the vast white Etosha salt pan. Available in reverse.One of AfricaвЂ™s newest countries, having fairly recently gained independance from South Africa, Namibia is still a relatively unknown destination that offers visitors the opportunity to experience a more authentic Africa. On the last morning, the train travels the Namib to the perfectly preserved 19th-century German Hansa town of Swakopmund and Walvis Bay вЂ“ an unforgettable end to a remarkable journey. Then itвЂ™s a short flight to Sossusvlei, a stunning pan in the Namib Desert, for an overnight stay followed by a night in the game-rich Etosha National Park. Guests continue across the untamed beauty of the Kalahari Desert to a cheetah conservation project and a stop in NamibiaвЂ™s capital for a tour Windhoek is a lively, cosmopolitan city with a strong German flavour. The train traverses the stark vistas of the Northern Cape to the Fish River Canyon вЂ“ second in size to the Grand Canyon вЂ“В and Garas Park with its quiver-tree forest. Departing from Pretoria, the first stop is Kimberley, centre of one of the worldвЂ™s famous diamond rushes where there is an opportunity to savour the 1870s atmosphere of the mining village. This journey takes the train from the savannahs of the Highveld to the Atlantic in the west.

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