Brief History
Namibia’s landscapes vary from the world’s highest sand dunes towering 350 metres above the desert, to the Fish River Canyon, the largest in the World after Americas Grand Canyon.
Windhoek, the capital city offers many unusual shopping opportunities, including jewellery, hand woven carpets, African crafts,coats and jackets. Along the Atlantic ocean Swakopmund is close to the Cape Cross Seal Reserve, which houses over 80,000 fur seals.
At the Etosha National Park there are several perennial springs that draw huge concentrations of game and birds during the dry winter months. This exotic holiday special gives you the grand opportunity to explore much of Namibia’s myriad landscapes.
This fascinating holiday package encompasses much of Namibia’s extraordinary variety and this exciting tour takes you from Walvis Bay and the popular holiday destination of Swakopmund. In a nutshell this holiday package takes you beyond the dramatic desert shoreline of Namibia along the skeleton coast and through the desolate Burnt Mountains. Sandwich harbour, situated past Walvis Bay beyond the dramatic desert shoreline of Namibia is an ecological, ornithological and scenic phenomenon.
At Twyfelfontein you will find Stone Age rock engravings set in a valley of red sandstone and the mysterious perpendicular slabs of basalt known as the Organ Pipes.
The Petrified Forest has the giant tree trunks that were deposited by an ancient flood. The highlight of the trip is the 2.2 million hectare Etosha National Park and the heart of this park is the Etosha pan, meaning “place of dry waters”,an extensive, flat depression of 5,000 kilometres. One of the most ecologically important reserves in southern Africa, this park is home to springs that attract huge quantities of birds and game.